Designing RESTful API Endpoints

Welcome! In this lesson, we'll dive into designing clean and efficient API endpoints following REST principles. Understanding REST is crucial for building scalable web services.

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It's an architectural style for networked applications, emphasizing a stateless client-server communication.

At the heart of REST are resources. Think of resources as any information or data that your API can provide or manipulate. They are the 'things' your API manages.

• A resource is identified by a unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
• They are typically represented by nouns, like users, products, or orders.
• Ideally, use plural nouns for collections of resources.