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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By : James J. Ye
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By: James J. Ye

Overview of this book

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2, with its practical approach, helps you become a full-stack web developer. As well as knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a developer has to tackle all problems encountered in the application development life cycle – starting from the simple idea of an application, to the UI and technical designs, and all the way to implementation, testing, production deployment, and monitoring. With the help of this book, you'll get to grips with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 as you learn how to develop a web application. From the initial structuring to full deployment, you’ll be guided at every step of developing a web application from scratch with Vue.js 2 and Spring 5. You’ll learn how to create different components of your application as you progress through each chapter, followed by exploring different tools in these frameworks to expedite your development cycle. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a complete understanding of the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. RESTful API Design - Building Language Between Frontend and Backend

An API is a contract between the API provider and the API consumers. REST is one of the most popular API styles, mainly because of it being simple to use and easy to understand. The term REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer, which is an architectural style defined by Roy T. Fielding in his dissertation back in 2000.

Even though REST has been around for 18 years at the time of writing this book, there are still misconceptions of what a RESTful API is. According to Roy T. Fielding, many APIs that call themselves RESTful is not really RESTful. There are even people that think that being RESTful is just JSON over HTTP. For years, there have been debates around HATEOAS (short for Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State). In this chapter, we will talk about these topics in depth, and so you will learn about the following:

  • RESTful API characteristics
  • RESTful API design procedure
  • RESTful API implementation...