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What is a Web Socket API?

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A WebSocket API is a modern technology that can establish a two-way interactive communication session between a user's browser and a server. By using this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without polling the server. Most commonly, WebSocket is a duplex protocol that is used in client-server communications. Client-server communication is bidirectional, which means it goes back and forth between the client and the server. What is a Web Socket? A WebSocket is a computer communications protocol that provides full-duplex communication channels over a TCP connection. Through the use of the WebSocket, the connection lasts until one party decides to end it. A connection that is broken at one end prevents the other party from communicating with the first party. To initiate a connection, WebSocket needs HTTP support. When it comes to perfect streaming of data and other unsynchronized traffic, it serves as the spine for advanced web applic...

How do RESTful APIs work? An Insightful Guide

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RESTful APIs are the kind of APIs that follow the constraints of a REST architectural style. We have covered a full article on the background architecture of this kind of API, its pros and cons, and its principles. This article focuses mainly on the way the REStful APIs work, client requests, and server responses in these APIs. If you want to get familiar with the way these APIs work and then use different frameworks, follow along with the article to get familiar with the backbone architecture of a RESTful API. How do RESTful APIs work? Just the same as browsing the internet, in a RESTful API, The client contacts the server by using the API when it requires a resource. The API developers explain how the client should use the REST API in the server application API documentation. The process that happens in RESTful API, goes like this. First, The client sends a request to the server and writes the request in a format that has been mentioned in the documentation, so that the...

What is a RESTful API? A Complete Guide

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REST API and RESTful API are both terms that can be used interchangeably. REST stands for Representational State Transfer and it is a software architectural style that defines a set of certain rules or constraints for creating web services. API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface. REST API is a kind of API that uses the rules defined by the REST architectural style and is also a way of accessing web services in a simple and flexible way without having any processing. Web services that implement REST architecture are called RESTful web services. What is an API? An API or an Application Programming Interface is a kind of a gateway between the clients and the resources on the web. These resources contain certain data that can be accessed by rules defined in the API. In other words, API is a way for various applications to communicate with each other. Developers expose or create APIs so that other applications can communicate with their applications programma...