# API routes with REST

Next.js ships with [API routes](https://github.com/vercel/next.js#api-routes), which provide an easy solution to build your own `API`. This example shows how it can be used to create your [REST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer) `API`.

## Deploy your own

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## How to use

Execute [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app) with [npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/init), [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/), or [pnpm](https://pnpm.io) to bootstrap the example:

```bash
npx create-next-app --example api-routes-rest api-routes-rest-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example api-routes-rest api-routes-rest-app
# or
pnpm create next-app --example api-routes-rest api-routes-rest-app
```

### Deploy to Vercel

Deploy it to the cloud with [Vercel](https://vercel.com/new?utm_source=github&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=next-example) ([Documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/deployment)).