# CRUD Operations

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### Best practices

* Use plural: `posts` not `post`
* Updating `PUT` or `PATCH` is user preference
* `PUT` operations send all the data over again and patch it in the database
* `PATCH` operations send only the data that has to be adjusted and the backend should know how to do this


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