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If you mainly want to read data - consider using the Delivery endpoint. It provides a very handy formatted JSON and can be customized and configured with YAML via light module.
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REST can be used for many purposes - you know your own use cases better than we do.
On this section we just show you, how you can test the REST API with some little tools - without the need to develop a REST consuming client application upfront..
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