User:Tancre/Prototyping/API

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API

Application Programming Interface

What is an API?

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What is an API? - Alan Frye

So an API is basically an application that works on a meta-level and permits the exchange of informations between two software services through the use of protocols.

It is really interesting the idea of API's ecosystem >> It would be nice to explore in a graphical way the system of relations between different software services and API's that permits those relations.

History of API's

Types of API's