eli5: The difference between RESTful API and a Web API
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REST is a design philosophy and Web is a deployment environment, so they’re actually independent. Your api can be either neither or both.
Web just means it’s accessible on the internet.
REST stands for representational state transfer, and basically means the API doesn’t change state a result of any request you make. Each request should get the same response regardless of what other requests happened before.
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