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#rest (5)

Concepts (2)

APIs

A versioned contract between two pieces of software — endpoints, verbs, payload shapes, errors, and auth — that decouples a caller from an implementation.
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HTTP

The request/response protocol that carries almost every API, page, and download on the modern internet — methods, status codes, headers, caching, and three wire formats (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3).
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Cheat sheets (3)

curl — HTTP Client

Transfer data with URLs. Covers HTTP methods, headers, authentication, forms, TLS, cookies, proxies, timeouts, parallel downloads, and a comprehensive recipe collection.
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fastapi — Fast ASGI API Framework

Build high-performance async REST APIs with FastAPI. Covers path params, request bodies, Pydantic models, dependency injection, and auto-generated OpenAPI docs.
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litestar — High-Performance ASGI Framework

Build fast, type-safe HTTP APIs and web apps with Litestar. Covers route handlers, path/query/body params, DTOs, dependency injection, middleware, WebSockets, and OpenAPI.
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