How data flows in backend calls to your PostgreSQL Database.

Ali Alhaddad
Sep 4, 2018 · 2 min read

A step by step explanation of how to retrieve data from a REST API connected to a database.

How does data flow when retrieving data from your database? It is a question, I get asked a lot, In many different ways, and I have given many different explanations.

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