Best practice for development using REST API - OData

Hi All, I am new to REST. I am a developer who works mostly in server-side code using Visual Studio. Now that Microsoft is advocating to write code using REST API instead of server-side code or client side object model, I am trying to use REST API.
I googled and most of the example shows to write a code and put it on Content Editor/Script Editor. How to organize code and deploy to the staging/production in this scenario? Is there any Best Practice or example around this?
Regards,
Khushi

If you are writing code in aspx or cs it does not mean that you need to deploy it in the SharePoint server, it could be any other application running from your remote server. What I mean it you can use C# & Rest API to connect to SharePoint server.
REST API in SharePoint 2013 provides the developers with a simple standardized method of retrieving information from SharePoint and it can be used from any technology that is capable of sending standard HTTP requests.
Refer to the following blog that provide your more details about comparison of the major features of these programming choices/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj164060.aspx#RESTODataA
http://dlr2008.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/sharepoint-2013-rest-api-the-c-connection-part-1-using-system-net-http-httpclient/
Hope this helps
--Cheers

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