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JavaScript

Posted by Alex Gwartney
Alex Gwartney
13,256 Points

Understanding rest

So something that iam lost on is the use of a rest api. So what i understand so far is that you set up the api to access the data and place that back on the page using json. Now my question is whats the difference of using rest to serve data through the api vs just querying a database directly and getting and displaying the data?