REST (REpresentational State Transfer) API

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Created by computer scientist Roy Fielding, REST is an API that conforms to the architectural style constraints of uniform interface, client-server decoupling, statelessness, cacheability, and layered system architecture. ([1]) There is also an optional constraint of code on demand.

To learn more about REST, see the full Wikipedia article here.