What is REST? REST: Representational State Transfer Server responds with the representation of a resource there is no “official” standard for RESTful web APIs REST is an architectural style, while SOAP is a protocol REST is not a standard in itself, but RESTful implementations make use of standards, such as HTTP, URI, JSON, and XML References Codecademy
REST vs GraphQL RESTful services allow application to change state (modify data) without being state aware.