API & Webservice

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 Difference between webservice and API

- All webservice are APIs

- APIs might not be a webservice


Examples of API terms

POST: create a record

GET: read or view a single or multiple records

PUT: update an existing record

DELETE: delete an existing record

Can use below site for testing:

Reqres - A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests

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