What is exactly API and why we call it like that? I am learning web development, and always come across APIs. I would love to learn it through an analogy.
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If I have an application that processes mortgage applications, and as part of that applications logic, I need to access a database of mortgage rates, an API is a middleman application that I can send a message to “give me the rates”, and it will do the querying, filtering and sorting of the data for me before sending it back in the format my application can work with.
It’s a middleman application between different applications or between applications and data sources.
Based on the other replies i guess there are other types if APIs but in my experience as a middleware API developer, that’s what it is.
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