# REST (Representational State Transfer)

### Objectives

- [ ] Describe the concept of resources in relation to REST and APIs
- [ ] Identify conventions for various routes including naming convention, HTTP verbs, and status codes
- [ ] Build RESTful routes for a given resource

## Guiding Questions

* What is a resource?

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* What are the five common actions of an API? What methods and status codes are typically used for the five common actions?

| Action  | Method  | Path | Body |
|---|---|---|---|
|   |   |   |   |
|   |   |   |   |
|   |   |   |   |

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* How would you build RESTful routes for the following data? The 

  ```js
  const authors = [
    {
      name: 'Haruki Murakami',
      books: [
        { title: 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' },
        { title: 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' }
      ]
    },
    {
      name: 'Kurt Vonnegut'
      books: [
        { title: 'Slaughterhouse-Five' }
      ]
    }
  ]
  ```
  
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* Build RESTful routes for one of the following resources: cards, dogs, engineers

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