Understanding the Difference Between APIs and Endpoints
In the world of software development, particularly in the domain of web services...
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Very interested to see if anyone ever confused these two things. I had to double take when I saw the title! Next up, 'Understanding the difference between bread and butter'.
Very well written though! Appologies for my sarcasm!
Actually it did for me.
I have been workibg with API's for a while but got a little confused when a coworker started speaking about endpoints.
Had to google it and here I am.
Maybe I've read enough articles and blogs to detect whether an article is AI-generated or not. lol. It seems like it's generated by ChatGPT-4o. The summary is great, as gpt-4o does.
Thank you @msnmongare. This really clarifed my confusion.
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No one is asking for this AI-generated junk article. You’re a spammer, it’s gross.
Kindly proof it's AI-generated?
It is AI generated:
"is crucial in tailing the design, development and integration of software to meet an organization’s need through the comprehension of these components of Second Life. "
This sentence literally makes no sense at all.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Be nice, don't be a jerk.
100% Promp Bait.
How?
Actually, the original definition of an API is any interface between software components, including function calls or classes inside a program in whatever language. So the DOM presents an API to the JS engine that can manipulate the internal objects of the DOM.
WebGL is an API that allows JS running in the browser to do OpenGL calls and draw images with it. OpenGL itself is a lower level API to do the same, called from C, Java and other languages.
WebWorkers is an API that lets you run threads in the browser. WebRTC is an API that can run video communications with another browser. Many packages on the npm registry have their own APIs.
APIs, as this article uses the word, also count as APIs. If you want to refer, specifically, to this kind, you can say "web API".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API
Writing an article about an absolutely trivial concept that can be learned with 10s of Googling.
Very well said with simple indepth analysis
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Actually an api is an endpoint. And endpoints can be considered as api's.
Very nice article however what i would suggest is that you shove the line fucntion up your ass since that would be a better use of my time because i would not be baited by this kind of dog shit again
I have no clue why this AI written blog is so trending while there are other high quality articles in dev.to itself which do not perform so well
Top, very nice !
Thanks for sharing
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always seen my self as dumb guy but somehow i could understand this easy Thanks op!
RESTful APIs are best
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