Building RESTful APIs with Play

Welcome! In this lesson, we'll dive into building RESTful APIs using the Scala Play Framework. REST (Representational State Transfer) is a widely used architectural style for designing networked applications.

A RESTful API allows different software systems to communicate with each other over the internet, typically using standard HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE to perform operations on resources.

In Play, incoming HTTP requests are handled by controllers. A controller is a Scala object or class that contains action methods.

Each action method is responsible for processing a specific type of request (e.g., fetching data, creating a new item) and returning an HTTP response.