6. Why is it less-advisedly to use POST for creation and PUT for updating?

santiagoclv

Hi! In the training part 6 "Implementing POST, PUT and DELETE with Fastify (4)",
It says:

Typically a service would either use POST or PUT for both creation and updates, or sometimes less-advisedly, POST for creation and PUT for updates.

I always have worked in projects where they use the POST for creation and PUT for updates. Why would it be better to use POST or PUT for both operations?

Thanks in advance

jhonny111s

I believe this is because of the idempotency concept, you want to get the same behavior always, in that case, create or update just one registry with the same operation.

d.m.c

yes exactly, as @jhonny111s says

santiagoclv

Thanks!