In 2000, Roy Fielding introduced the term Representational state transfer (REST) in his doctoral dissertation. Reading his thesis (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm) is highly recommended to better understand the architecture of the web itself. It can help you write better web applications that do not violate the core constraints of the architecture.
One of the key insights is that a URI is an identifier to a resource. A resource can be anything, such as an article, a user, or a collection of resources, such as events. Generally speaking, resources are nouns.
The web provides you with some fundamental HTTP verbs to manipulate resources: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.
These are not part of the URL ...
