Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services.

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

A RESTful API is one that conforms to the REST constraints. You can build RESTful APIs using many different programming languages.