REST
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- The Layers of HTTP in the Browser: From fetch() to QUIC1/9
Request and Response: What Does the Browser Actually Send?
A request is not a URL, and an HTTP response is not always JSON. Headers and body have separate lifecycles, and an HTTP error is not a network failure.
- Testing Through Layers: From Code to Infrastructure4/9
Contract Tests and API Tests: The Public System Agreement
A contract test protects the agreement between systems, while an API test checks the behavior of a public interface. Both matter where a change stops being…
- Ways of Talking to a Backend: From HTML Forms to GraphQL4/6
REST: Resources, Representations, and HTTP Semantics
REST is not "JSON plus endpoints". It is resources identified by URIs, representations kept separate from the resource, and the meaning of HTTP methods put to…
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Ways of Talking to a Backend: From HTML Forms to GraphQL
The layers of frontend to backend communication from the bottom up: forms, XHR and fetch start the request, HTTP carries it, and REST, RPC and GraphQL model…