REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP.
It tends to be simpler and use less bandwidth than SOAP (which use XML).
All modern, popular development platforms have libraries for making HTTP calls and marshalling/unmarshalling data as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open standard format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.