The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

API Approaches Explained REST: The Web Standard REST (Representational State Transfer) organizes APIs around resources, linked to URL endpoints (e.g., /users/42).

Good REST API design protects against accidental deletion or change by third-party applications or overzealous Web crawlers. REST APIs generally format the responses in JSON or XML.

Many discussions of Web APIs get hung up on the finer points of REST APIs and whether a given RESTful API actually follows REST principles. For the record, I set out to find a good example of someone ...