# REST api or webservice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [May 11, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-or-webservice/62490 "2017-05-11T07:52:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![mikakun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@mikakun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikakun)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-or-webservice/62490/1 "2017-05-11T07:52:44Z")
apologize i don’t know much about discourse & i’m not sure it’ll fit my requirements I want to develop a re-usable web application pretty much based on a forum (& its auth features) & a QA & extra features of my own. that app would work on shared or any kind of server completely independently of the discourse server i’d set-up one time (i’m assuming i can host as many forum as i want on one instance of discourse). 1 - is there a rest api in discourse & if it’s in ror only would it be easy for me complete noob in ror to convert it in php - so i can keep dev with my framework ? or could i set-up some web services easily from the discourse server (& without having to worry when there is a discourse update) 1 - is there a Question/answer stackOverflow style feature already available in discourse ? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-or-webservice/62490)._