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What are the different strategies for versioning a REST API and what are their advantages and disadvantages?

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Versioning allows you to evolve an API while maintaining compatibility with existing clients. Here are the main strategies. First strategy, URL versioning. You include the version in the path, for example /api/v1/users or /api/v2/users.

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