Glossary

The words, without the shrug

Every term the courses use, defined in one line and then in a paragraph. Written to be read out of order.

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REST

Backend

An API style organised around things.

Endpoints named after resources (/users, /orders) with HTTP verbs saying what to do to them. Highly cacheable and easy to inspect. A rich screen may need several calls.

RPC

Backend

Calling a named function on another machine.

An API style where you invoke an action directly rather than modelling resources. With shared types, a contract break becomes a build error, which is why it suits an app talking to its own backend.