These are the main properties that make REST simple and unique compared to its predecessors:
- Client-server based architecture: This architecture is most essential for the modern web to communicate over HTTP. A single client-server may look naive initially, but many hybrid architectures are evolving. We will discuss more of these shortly.
- Stateless: This is the most important characteristic of a REST service. A REST HTTP request consists of all the data needed by the server to understand and give back the response. Once a request is served, the server doesn't remember if the request has arrived after a while. So the operation will be a stateless one.
- Cacheable: Many developers think a technology stack is blocking ...
