Building a web API, developers need to pick the right API paradigm first. The choice among RPC, REST, GraphQL, or SOAP specification will dictate the way of your client-server communication.

We're overviewing the core principles of each, its strengths and weaknesses against the three others to help you differentiate among them and see the cases in which each API paradigm will fit better.

0:00 Different forms of API
0:45 RPC
2:23 SOAP
4:51 REST
5:52 REST constraints
9:33 The con of REST - chattiness
10:23 GraphQL
12:25 Drawing a line
13:03 Messaging between systems

Check our article to learn more about the API Types: https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/soap-v...


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