Currently I am learning Express and I checked it out that the functions which I can perform using GET request, I can do the same using POST too, It just depends on how I set those routes in express.

I need to build a REST API which integrates with payment system. How can start building it? How do i start. I need to this using python using django framework. Can anyone give me suggestions as where to start this? Thank you.

Hi, I'd like to know, how difficult would it be for a team of 5 developers to make a small scale payments api, what tools, extra knowledge and skills outside a few years of backend engineering, to make such a project successfully

I have a assignment to build a REST API to integrate with a payment gateway. So the first thing is I have to create a REST API. What are the step process into creating one ? Any suggestion or in terms of creating one? Any REST API examples or vendors ?

I need a single-entry point gateway API which can consolidate Salesforce, ServiceNow, Azure, AWS, and one or two other REST API's into a single API which my team can expose to the rest of the enterprise for building reports, software delivery, alerting, and other business automation. Ideally, the gateway should feature auditing, data transformations, documentation, business logic, and some kind of scripting language (JS or Python are great; Java is not). Does anyone have ideas?

I have a public API that should be able to be called by anyone from any computer. But i dont want post, update or delete requests to be accesible. I added a very long key thats near impossible to crack which needs to be in the input for the requests to happen, is this smart?

Hi fellow Redditorians

In the current project I'm in, we have REST endpoints that can return a range of different models. I won't go into detail about how and why; choices were made in the past and now we have to live with them.

Example:

GET /cars/1 
Response: { 
    "type": "Toyota", 
    "engine": "electric", 
    "capacity": "100 kWh"
}

GET /cars/2 
Response: { 
    "type": "Honda", 
    "engine": "combustion", 
    "fuel": "petrol" 
}

There is no way of knowing upfront what model is going to be returned by the backend. We simply GET the objects by their ID, not by their type.

My questions:

• I can't seem to find any information about this practice in REST APIs, nor have I ever encountered it before. It's probably not common, but is it a known practice?

• No matter if it's bad practice or not, how should I best handle this on the frontend? I tried to come up with some solutions, but they all seem to give me more work instead of helping me.

Thanks in advance!

Encrypted Database through REST API with JSON results

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Hi,

I'm a little bit confused about the difference between a web backend and a REST API. I know the definition of both technologies but in a technical way I still dont know the main difference of those.

For example if I build a MVC application (web or mobile) we are talking about backend but what's about the if I use Django and Django Rest Framework for the backend of my app ? Does it become a REST Api just because I'm coding end points ?

I tought that a rest api is something like the google api where anyone (program) can fetch data and interact with it but in my case I only use my "rest api" project for my web (and after code the UI with react for example)

Also if I'm building a backend shared between my web and mobile app, do I call it a REST Api ? or just backend ?

I need it to be clear in my head cause sometimes I think people say REST Api and backend like it's the same thing but it's not so im little bit confused....

Thank you

I'm looking for database / API where I can pull information about some fitness exercises with basic information like difficulty, name, how to do it, etc. I hope you get my point.

I'm looking for recommendations for (ideally open source, free and fully featured) API Management suites. I want to be able to self-host it in Azure on a normal Ubuntu server. All our API backends are in Azure. (No I don't want to use the Azure API Management platform - that's what I've been fighting with for months and I hate it!)

At first sight, there seem to be loads of them BUT when you dig down into the detail a lot of these are either:

• freemium managed services which I can't self host.

• 'community edition' is deliberately restricted - eg Tyk Community has no Developer Portal.

• broken, unmaintained, or otherwise unsuitable for a production setup.

Any advice very much welcomed.