API

Mate Academy has a public API that you can practice with by downloading, for example, Postman, and making requests from the application. https://mate-academy.github.io/fe-students-api/goods.html

Endpoints are URLs through which clients can access and process data. When creating endpoints, several rules should be followed:

• The URL should always end with a noun, for example, /api/users. A bad example would be /api?type=users;
• HTTP methods are used to identify actions, for example, GET for retrieving data;
• a developer should be able to understand what operation is being performed just by looking at the endpoint and the HTTP method. For example:

Endpoint	HTTP Method	Description
api/users	GET	get all users
api/users/new	GET	show the form for adding a new user
api/users	POST	add a user
api/users/1	PUT	update the user with id = 1
api/users/1/edit	GET	show the update form for the user with id = 1
api/users/1	DELETE	delete the user with id = 1
api/users/1	GET	get the user with id = 1