A bird's eye view on API development

Published on November 16, 2016 and filed under Software engineering
Written by Frederick Van Brabant and will take

16 minutes

of your time.

In short

Application Programming Interface, or as the cool kids call it: API, is a collection of endpoints to interact with an application. You have internal and external APIs. This post is all about external APIs (more specific, external web APIs).

Want to see more articles like this in your inbox? You know what to do.

.Blogposts___StyledBackgroundImage-sc-1eq0cg3-4.huWSDb.gbi--787115064-4njriYAocqPf713Q5wiWX6:before { opacity: 1; background-image: url('/static/3c03013148e65ecc8540ff9e4195c6c4/3cec7/blog-graphql.png'); }

Querying your Redux store with GraphQL

Emma Fabre

December 21, 2020

.Blogposts___StyledBackgroundImage-sc-1eq0cg3-4.huWSDb.gbi--1954071547-aWueU9e3HbqibEXd5PTPvj:before { opacity: 1; background-image: url('/static/c7bd578c21f50a74928f4fa5d77eb9a0/3cec7/vercel-gatsby-blogpost.png'); }

Serverless functions with Vercel

Geoffrey Dhuyvetters

September 02, 2020

.Blogposts___StyledBackgroundImage-sc-1eq0cg3-4.huWSDb.gbi-1809833853-hSA2etmeRvD7AbgLQ3e2NM:before { opacity: 1; background-image: url('/static/6987e9e2ae956e6dc520ea5f572eb682/3cec7/blogpost-legacy-greenfield-code-1.png'); }

I'm starting a greenfield project and I'm terrified.

Jonas Drieghe

August 04, 2020

A bird's eye view on API development

Related articles

Querying your Redux store with GraphQL

Serverless functions with Vercel

I'm starting a greenfield project and I'm terrified.