REST

Category: The web and how it moves

REST — The most common style for building APIs. REST APIs use web addresses (URLs) and standard actions like GET, POST, and DELETE, so different tools can talk to them the same way.

Why you care

Most APIs you'll meet are REST APIs. When someone says "it's REST," they mean "it works the way you'd expect a web API to work."

When you hear it

"It's a REST API." "REST endpoint."