WDD 330: Web Frontend Development II

Review: Web APIs

Overview

A Web API (Application Programming Interface) is a way for different applications to talk to each other over the internet. It allows one application to access features or data of another application, making it possible to share information and functionality between different systems.

"Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are constructs made available in programming languages to allow developers to create complex functionality more easily. They abstract more complex code away from you, providing some easier syntax to use in its place." - MDN Web Docs

Prepare

  1. Read: 📃 Introduction to web APIs - MDN

Your final project in this course will require you to use a data source which can be a 3rd party API.