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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An API is like the menu in a restaurant. You pick something off the menu and you get it sent to you. You don’t know what happens in the kitchen, but it gives you the options and sends you what you pick.
And API is the same thing. It tells you how you can interact with a server/ system/ whatever and then sends you the info you pick off the menu (the API ). You don’t know what happens under the hood on their side to get the info, but you pick what you want (endpoint, parameters, etc.) and it sends it to you
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