Rest Architecture

RElational State Transfer (REST) is a software architectural style. REST defines how the architecture of a web application 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

Client-server

Cacheability

Layered system

Code on demand

REST constraints has the following advantages −

Scalability

Simplicity

Modifiability

Reliability

Portability

Visibility