Representational State Transfer (REST) is the most popular architecture for creating HTTP/HTTPS-based APIs to represent web services that a site has to offer to end users. The REST architecture builds upon the GET/POST/PUT/DELETE requests offered in the HTTP/HTTPS standards. In this chapter, you'll learn how to build a RESTful API, get introduced to the basic rules for API design, create endpoints for requests that a client sends to a server, and define response status codes. You'll then learn how the design of the REST API can be extended to the idea of building an API Gateway, which is the single entry point for all clients and routes client's requests to different MVC components or microservices.
After finishing this chapter, you'll have the following knowledge:
- Understanding the basic server/client model based on HTTP
- Gaining...
