Comparing the RESTful API and Web Socket servers

A RESTful-based API is conceptually similar to design, develop, and test, and are more commonly found across the internet where a one-way request/response data exchange is needed.

Here are some defining characteristics of this approach:

• The communication protocol is built around HTTP methods with GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE being the most common.
• The protocol is half-duplex in the form of request-response. The client makes a request and the server responds. The server cannot initiate a request to a client.
• We have options including curl on the command line and GUI tools such as Postman to test and development RESTful APIs.
• We can use a common web browser to test HTTP GET API endpoints
• In Python, we can use the Flask-RESTful extension to help us to build a RESTful API server. We model endpoints as Python classes that have class methods such as .get() and .post() that match HTTP request methods.
• For a web page client, we can use a library...