Throughout this book, we’ve made reference to APIs, but we haven’t gone into detail about how they work. To put it simply, an API is a way for us to request and receive information from a computation process happening outside of your current application. This includes other computers and servers. API, which stands for application programming interface, provide a standard mechanism for sending and receiving this interaction. If you want to create things like login pages, user accounts, or persistent user ...
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J. SimpsonHow JavaScript Works https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9738-4_1010. Fetching Data, APIs, and Promises
Jonathon Simpson1
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