The times have changed—we commute with Uber, overnight with Airbnb, pay with cryptocurrencies, and have breaking news at our fingertips via social media. We snap, chat, and share our lives in real-time—and these kinds of apps make it happen.
What drives most of these apps, however, are Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) , which are the glue of the connected world we live in. APIs are everywhere, from the doorbell in our smart homes to the traffic updates in our connected cars.
In web development , an API is a set of rules or contracts that dictate how consumers ...
