What is restful meaning?

Restful or Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for building distributed systems on the web. It is designed to provide a simple and lightweight approach for exposing resources using HTTP/web standards. RESTful services use HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to create, read, update and delete data resources. These resources are identified by unique URIs, which are used by clients to interact with the server. RESTful services are stateless, meaning that each request contains all the information necessary to complete the request, and there is no need for the server to maintain any session information. This makes RESTful services highly scalable and easy to cache. RESTful services are widely used for building web APIs that can be consumed by various clients, such as web browsers, mobile devices, and other servers.