RESTful API: Design Principles and Best Practices for Web Services

RESTful is an architectural style used for designing web services. It stands for Representational State Transfer and is based on the HTTP protocol. RESTful web services use a set of principles to define how resources are accessed and manipulated over the web. This includes using unique URLs to represent each resource, using HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to perform operations on those resources, and returning data in a standard format such as JSON or XML. The goal of RESTful web services is to provide a simple, scalable, and flexible way to access and manipulate resources over the web.