Web Dev//API//REST

An API style based on HTTP verbs + URL patterns. The most common way to structure a web API.

An API style based on HTTP verbs + URL patterns. The most common way to structure a web API.

GET /contacts — give me the contacts

POST /contacts — create a new one

GET /contacts/123 — give me this specific one

PUT /contacts/123 — replace this one entirely

PATCH /contacts/123 — update some fields

DELETE /contacts/123 — delete this one

The URL identifies the resource, the verb says what to do with it. Clean, predictable, stateless.

Supabase creates REST endpoints automatically from your tables. Define a table, and GET /rest/v1/contacts already works — no backend code needed. The SDK wraps these into typed functions.

REST is the default. Alternatives: GraphQL (one endpoint, flexible queries), WebSockets (real-time, bidirectional), RPC (function calls, not resources).