If you’re new to backend development, you may have encountered REST.
While the name might sound relaxing, it’s an acronym for Representational State Transfer.
Exaggeration (sort of) aside, REST stands for Representational State Transfer and this is not at all wordy even though you’ll probably agree with me that we stick to its acronym.
To understand what REST and GraphQL are, we would have to dive into the world of APIs which stands for Application Programming Interfaces.