What is REST? Why is it so popular? How can you build your own RESTful service?

Building a standards compliant RESTful service requires an understanding of what it means for a service to be RESTful. In this session, we will set the groundwork with an overview of REST over HTTP and words like Idempotence.

We will then build a RESTful service using ASP.NET Core and discuss the benefits of using Swagger to describe the service and to create a service contract.

Once the service is built we will explore how to test it using the Swagger web interface and Postman. Finally, we will create a client application to consume the service.