Application programming interfaces (APIs) have grown more popular in recent years, as businesses attempt to make their apps smoother and easier to use both behind the scenes and in customer-facing interactions. While APIs are convenient and increasingly relied upon, they …
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a set of protocols used in building and integrating application software. REST API is short for RESTful API, with REST standing for “Representational State Transfer,” a design and communication approach. REST is a simple and …
Similar to how a mobile app is an application which runs on a smartphone, a web app refers to a software application that carries out a particular function using a web browser for a client. The first web applications date …
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More than a few of us have heard of application programming interfaces (APIs) before but might lack the context to define what they are. Let’s rectify that now. In the words of IBM, an API is “a set of defined …
