How to get JSON data from the URL (REST API) to UI using jQuery or plain JavaScript?

Send a ajax request to your server like this in your js and get your result in success function.

jQuery.ajax({
            url: "/rest/abc",
            type: "GET",

            contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
            success: function(resultData) {
                //here is your json.
                  // process it

            },
            error : function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
            },

            timeout: 120000,
        });

at server side send response as json type.

And you can use jQuery.getJSON for your application.

You can use native JS so you don't have to rely on external libraries.

(I will use some ES2015 syntax, a.k.a ES6, modern javascript) What is ES2015?

fetch('/api/rest/abc')
    .then(response => response.json())
    .then(data => {
        // Do what you want with your data
    });

You can also capture errors if any:

fetch('/api/rest/abc')
    .then(response => response.json())
    .then(data => {
        // Do what you want with your data
    })
    .catch(err => {
        console.error('An error ocurred', err);
    });

By default it uses GET and you don't have to specify headers, but you can do all that if you want. For further reference: Fetch API reference

You can use us jquery function getJson :

$(function(){
    $.getJSON('/api/rest/abc', function(data) {
        console.log(data);
    });
});