What are APIs?
Learn about the concepts of APIs.
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What is an API?
In most applications, we’ll see that there are two parts:
- Frontend
- Backend
The frontend often handles the UI and how the application looks. The backend handles the database and other logic.
We need to establish a link between the backend and the frontend.
Web APIs
The term web APIs is frequently used when discussing APIs in relation to web development. A web API is an API that can be accessed using the HTTP protocol.
Typically, when we request a webpage, we get all sorts of data, like HTML, CSS, and ...