I need a custom rest api for a sharepoint 2013 online premise site. So, sharepoint isn't installed on my system and its stringent development requirements cannot be fulfilled by my system. So, is there a workaround for creating api for sharepoint without installing?
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Using SharePoint CSOM API doesn't require you to have SharePoint Installed. You basically need to reference folllowing assemblies in your project and free to go: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll
Then I would select to create a standard .NET rest service as separate WebApplication which you can deploy to either separate IIS server in the domain or to the one of SharePoint's farm servers.