A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

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How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

Building custom APIs for every mobile, Web, and IoT project drives up costs and risk; there’s a better way The engineering team at DreamFactory designed and built some of the very first applications ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alex Walling in his ...