Re:Ask HN: What is REST exactly?
by phamilton on Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:42PM
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REST is best described by the original paper. There are many other ways to describe it.
I like to think of the basic idea of REST as CRUD over HTTP. Think about how you interact with a database and move that abstraction out to a service level. Instead of doing things like "sign in", "leave group", "down vote entry" you instead "create session", "delete membership", "update entry". That's the key concept.
I like to think of the basic idea of REST as CRUD over HTTP. Think about how you interact with a database and move that abstraction out to a service level. Instead of doing things like "sign in", "leave group", "down vote entry" you instead "create session", "delete membership", "update entry". That's the key concept.