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Product type Book

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788836968

Pages 590 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Full Stack Web Development

Author (1):

James J. Ye

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Modern Web Application Development - This Is a New Era

2. Vue.js 2 - It Works in the Way You Expected

3. Spring 5 - The Right Stack for the Job at Hand

4. TaskAgile - A Trello-like Task Management Tool

5. Data Modeling - Designing the Foundation of the Application

6. Code Design - Designing for Stability and Extensibility

7. RESTful API Design - Building Language Between Frontend and Backend

8. Creating the Application Scaffold - Taking off Like a Rocket

9. Forms and Validation - Starting with the Register Page

10. Spring Security - Making Our Application Secure

11. State Management and i18n - Building a Home Page

12. Flexbox Layout and Real-Time Updates with WebSocket - Creating Boards

13. File Processing and Scalability - Playing with Cards

14. Health Checking, System Monitoring - Getting Ready for Production

15. Deploying to the Cloud with Jenkins - Ship It Continuously

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Index

Chapter 7. RESTful API Design - Building Language Between Frontend and Backend

An API is a contract between the API provider and the API consumers. REST is one of the most popular API styles, mainly because of it being simple to use and easy to understand. The term REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer, which is an architectural style defined by Roy T. Fielding in his dissertation back in 2000.

Even though REST has been around for 18 years at the time of writing this book, there are still misconceptions of what a RESTful API is. According to Roy T. Fielding, many APIs that call themselves RESTful is not really RESTful. There are even people that think that being RESTful is just JSON over HTTP. For years, there have been debates around HATEOAS (short for Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State). In this chapter, we will talk about these topics in depth, and so you will learn about the following: