url-routes-api-difference

for frontend, what’s the difference between /videos?watch={id} and /videos/{id}

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from rest-api-difference, i thought i understood this concept, but i saw that YouTube has https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHCY0nRI9_M for it’s videos

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there’s a difference between public facing url and internal restful api

• in the case of youtube.com/watch?v=123, this is a page displayed on the frontend

• it’s not used for resource identification

• frontend http requests to backend might still be /video/{id}

• of course, there’s some historical reasons behind

  • when youtube got started, REST design is not popular yet, so youtube didn’t use it
  • and now its for backward compatibility, there’s no need to change it as well

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