Do You Really Need an API?

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Likod: As we're getting closer and closer to our p hp versions of our web sihts, i kind of get less into the territory of needing an api. Likod: If you have never built anapi, definitely throw most of this out the window and just start with a simple a route in your application that when posted to or hit with fetch requests, we'll do something.

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what APIs are, the API standards that exist, and walk through the various layers of what goes into making an API.

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