What Is an API?

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The web is generally built on an a p iand what that means is that you have servers that will take in requests based on what you want to do. So literally every single thing that you do, you type into a box and you click on save. You click on an x to telet something, you edit something and up data and click the safe button. Every single time that you perform an action, send a tweet, like a like a video, they takes what you've done in the y and send that information to a server. And that server generally has a bunch of a pi, they're called n points, that can interpret those instructions and do what it is that you

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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