Best of REST APIJuly 2022

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    How to Authenticate a User with Face Recognition in React.js

    In this tutorial, we'll discuss different authentication techniques you can use to authenticate users. These include email-password authentication, phone auth, OAuth, passwordless magic links, and at last facial authentication. We'll also build a project that teaches you how to integrate facial recognition-based authentication in your React web application Magic link authentication Magic links.

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    Why not use GraphQL?

    Having too many versions of an API makes it very hard to keep track of. In GraphQL, there's only one version of the graph and changes can be tracked in a schema registry, a paid feature of Apollo. If you want to introduce a breaking change in this scenario without breaking a client, it's impossible. It would be impossible.

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    How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?

    REST is short for REpresentational State Transfer. Roy Fielding used the term to describe the network architecture of the world wide web. He was describing the web as it existed at that time, with HTML being exchanged over HTTP as people "surfed the web" Today, when someone uses the term REST, they are nearly always discussing a JSON-based API.