HTTP and CRUD

HTTP is an extensible protocol, but at its core, it facilitates CRUD operations.

CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update and Delete.

Almost all internet consumer-related software uses CRUD; you use it every time you ask an application to take your new data or modify the existing one.

The basic HTTP verbs corresponding to CRUD operations are:

• GET — retrieve a specific resource (by id) or a collection of resources
• POST — create a new resource
• PUT — update a specific resource (by id)
• DELETE — remove a specific resource by id

A HTTP request, in addition to an HTTP verb, typically consists of:

• a header, which allows the client to pass along information about the request
• a path to a resource
• an optional message body containing data

Here is an example of HTTP request and response taken from MDN Docs:

API Endpoint

HTTP request/response are basically textual data that needs to be transferred from one point to another over the network. An API endpoint is the point of entry in a communication channel when client and server interacting.