Types of HTTP Requests

You have already used different HTTP methods from your frontend code.

APIs use different HTTP methods to perform actions:

• GET: Retrieve data from the server
• POST: Send new data to the server
• PUT: Replace existing data on the server (full update)
• PATCH: Update part of an existing resource (partial update)
• DELETE: Remove data from the server

Note: PUT is usually used to replace an entire resource, while PATCH is used to update only some fields of a resource.

In this lesson, we will focus only on GET requests.