From the course: Succeeding in Web Development: Full Stack and Front End
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APIs and services
From the course: Succeeding in Web Development: Full Stack and Front End
APIs and services
- A developer doesn't always build an entire project, but often uses or creates a number of services and APIs. A service is a tool offered by a server that provides access to some information. Developers often create these to simplify the sharing of data. Now this is how some sites allow you to log in through your Facebook, Google, or Twitter accounts. And this is made possible by something called an API, or application programming interface. These are small applications used to formalize the way that the information is requested. Most APIs are considered restful, which is a service based on the hypertext transfer protocol. Restful services used HTTP verbs like GET and POST to retrieve and send information to manage that data. The requests are usually returned in a format called JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation. That's a text-based format that easily converts into JavaScript objects. Now as a developer, you'll need to…
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