RESTful APIs are a set of standards used to design web services that can be accessed over the HTTP protocol. They provide a uniform way to communicate and interact with different software applications and systems. RESTful APIs use HTTP requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to interact with the server resources and control their behavior.
My understanding and experience with RESTful APIs include:
The process of making an API call, handling response data, and displaying it on a webpage involves the following steps:
Here is an example code snippet to retrieve data from a RESTful API using Axios library:
axios.get('https://example.com/api/data') .then(function (response) {
// handle success console.log(response.data);
}
) .catch(function (error) {
// handle error console.log(error);
}
) .finally(function () {
// always executed }
);
In this code snippet, we are sending a GET request to the server and handling the response data in the success and error callbacks. We can then display the response data on a webpage using HTML and CSS.