REST API

Rest stands for REpresentational State Transfer

HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol the protocol that responsible for transferring the data between computers across the world.

it describes the location of something in the world from anywhere in the world.

The whole world wide web is built on an architectural style called “REST” link

a web page is a representation of a resource.

API Application Program interface this concept allows machines(computers) to use the web just like people.

the browser uses the GET method to get the webpage when you type in a URL.

when you visit a website and it has images or videos. the webpage specifies the URLs of these images and then the browser also goes and GETs these images using HTTP.