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What is the SharePoint REST API?
From the course: SharePoint Framework Essential Training
What is the SharePoint REST API?
- [Instructor] In today's development world for a SharePoint developer, a very relevant piece you need to learn is the SharePoint REST API. So let's get a handle on that as well. What is the SharePoint REST API? As I mentioned, around the add-in model, we had two choices, CSOM, which is client-side object model, which allowed you to interact with SharePoint sites, lists, and libraries, not running code directly on the SharePoint server. And a similar API called as the REST API, which effectively lets you do the same thing, but using standard REST APIs, JSON objects, and HTTP requests. That's the REST API I'm talking about, the one on the right side of the screen. So a little history on CSOM. CSOM was created right around the add-in model. And the add-in model is on its way to deprecation. The date they've given us so far is April 2nd, 2026. Although I can tell you that many of us who have been in the SharePoint development world for a long time, we have known that the add-in model…
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