In a project I have seen colleagues setting the -X parameter in a GET CURL request. I admit that I am not an expert and I had always fired my requests without this parameter. And it worked. I know about X that it stands for request. But nothing more.
Now my question. Is it necessary to include the X parameter and if so why?
curl GET http://localhost:3000/api/projects/ instead of
curl -X GET http://localhost:3000/api/projects/.