FastAPI - REST Architecture

RElational State Transfer (REST) is a software architectural style. REST defines how the architecture of a web apppcation should behave. It is a resource based architecture where everything that the REST server hosts, (a file, an image, or a row in a table of a database), is a resource, having many representations.

REST recommends certain architectural constraints.

Uniform interface

Statelessness

Cpent-server

Cacheabipty

Layered system

Code on demand

REST constraints has the following advantages −

Scalabipty

Simppcity

Modifiabipty

Repabipty

Portabipty

Visibipty

REST uses HTTP verbs or methods for the operation on the resources. The POST, GET, PUT and DELETE methods perform respectively CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE operations respectively.