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What does REST stand for?

• REST stands for Representational State Transfer. (It is sometimes spelled "ReST".) It relies on a stateless, client- server, cacheable communications protocol -- and in virtually all cases, the HTTP protocol is used. REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications.

REST APIs are designed around a _

• around resources, which are any kind of object, data.

What are the most common HTTP verbs?

• GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.

What should the URIs be based on?

• hould be based on the collection of data

What status code does a successful GET request return?

• code 200 or 'ok'

What status code does an unsuccessful GET request return?

• code 404 or 'not found'