What is an API?

Great video.

2023

Excellent explanation. Thanks a lot!

This was the best explanation I saw. Better than thousands of ridiculous explanations with PowerPoint and...

nice hair

much love for your channel

My searches end with this channel's name just so I can access you tutorials first. Thank you for such clear explanations.

so the conclusion i got from it an API is basically a survey or a ingame shop with microtransactions?

SUPER SIR

Your relation to the restaurant's menu was what made my brain click on and understand. Thank you

very well explained kyle!

this channel is pure gold knowledge. thank you sir for the work you put on this channel. very appreciated.

This video is referenced in my FullStack course. Great vid and great channel!

Your restaurant analogy made things really simple. Glad I stumbled upon this channel.

Can I have your API to your brain? thanks

I've been a developer for 3 years now, I wrote many REST WEB Services (Inboud and Outbound), but never actually understood the meaning of API.... until now

thanks , saved lot of time

Thank you for actually providing a correct definition of an API. The majority of web developers seem to think that API is a synonym for middleware, which it isn't.

love the way you make things simple. thank you

Thank you for your article on API and can you do it on REST& Restful difference with examples

Have been programming for 2 years and on a job interviews someone asked me have u written API's, I panicked and gave them a lowsy answer. I never called them API's, just called them services. After watching this video Turns out i have been working with api but just didn't use the terminology. LOL I got roasted and rejected by the interviewer.

Why does he blink so much tho

"Let's see it in non technical terms"
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"You can ask anything off of the menu and they will return data"
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I'm gonna go to the restaurant and ask for a peanut butter jelly sandwich just to see if they'd actually throw any errors

very good explanation and easy to understand, thank you

Your way of explanation is very clear!! You really helped me brother!! Thanks and may good things be with you.

so that's what REST API stands for restaurant api

I have watched over 20 videos about the Api explanation this is the only one explains in such clear way and short ! Nice

This dude has saved me years

leave the api, how do you style your hairs?

Your analogies are always so good! I love these short explanation videos, they pack so much punch in just a few minutes. Thanks a lot for the helpful video, Kyle 😊

whats a good library api for javascript?

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i cant tell you how thankful iam . you saved me a ton of time and headaches of watching fifty freaking same videos on API... I really wish i could watch your videos on promises, call backs and ajax things at one place and also in a sequence to understand it really good. But this is the beauty of your video that its short and very much understandable..thanks man.keep up the good work.i wish you millions of subscribers..i forwarded it to atleast 50.i hope they forward it to another 50 and so on. big THANK YOU :)

love your video so much 😍😍

Wonderful explanation. Kid, you are exceptionally good at explaining things! Some families do a great job raising their children! I wonder how people like you are made?! Whatever it is I'm sure you are from a very calm family and loving environment. It's obvious from your composure. Say Hello to your mom and dad from me! They should be very proud of you and I bet they are wonderful people too.

When I go to a restaurant and ask for the waitress' phone number, would that be an undocumented API call?

This is great. Could you do a video next where you make a simple API and maybe throw in some tips and good practices involved in making one?

Wasted hours in looking for video to understand API, landed up on this video and understood in 2 minutes, great example of a restaurant never gonna forget it... easy to remember!

Great....simple and effective explanation...calling spade a spade is not an easy task-especially in the tech world ...keep it up..bravo..

I find your videos really useful. Your ability to explain various concepts in an easy to understand way is great! You're really talented. Please keep the videos coming! Thanks a lot.

Imagine, with the growing popularity of JAM stack, creating a website that's fully dependent on multiple APIs to function. Then one day half of those APIs suddenly stopped providing data. Yikes.

so what's different method like CRUD and API ?

I'm just wanna compare it, just like "put" method in API, but just look like CRUD with extra steps I guess, so I need more reference or explanation, sorry I need guidence.

I like this simple explanation than "a set of subroutine definitions, communication protocols, and tools for building software. In general terms, it is a set of clearly defined methods of communication among various components."

BEST! explanation of an API, thankyou!

dude i was just thinking this yesterday you read my mind