Understanding REST APIs
Kanika Sud · Apress eBooks · 2020
This chapter throws light on building representational state transfer (REST)-based services. Since we’ll be learning RESTful Web Services through our chosen language, Node.js, and using an awesome framework like Hapi, it’s first necessary to introduce ourselves to REST APIs and then understand how Hapi makes the process easy. Along the ride, we’ll learn about HTTP verbs, resource handling, stateless constraints, and tying it all into representational state transfer.