What are APIs?

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 ...