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API ↔ App's Method & properties exposed to outside with rules for interacting

aka API, APIs, Application-Programming-Interface, Public-Interface

API is Software use by Software to talk to each other

API define routes (methods) & protocol (rules) to interact with API

Interface Object​

Object to interact with API by expose Method & Property Key

API Route​

route to endpoint to access Online API, usually via REST

Online API​

Software to expose access to remote Web Service/SaaS

Interface​

boundary across human/system components to exchange data

Google API

Public APIs Collection​

Github Repo of free APIs by categorty, HTTP Access

Source: GitHub - public-apis/public-apis: A collective list of free APIs

SendGrid​

Online API to manage mass-email mailing/marketing campaigns

Yelp​

Online API business yellowpage with contact/reviews/location/etc

jsonplaceholder​

Online API to provide dummy REST JSON HTTP Response

Source: jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/

Low-Level API​

API with more granular control over software Module or Hardware, with fewer Abstraction

References​

  1. Web API ↔ API Collection extends Browser Runtime (via window)

  2. JavaScript Runtime ↔ Environ (container) to run JS, consists of JS Engine, JS Library & Platform-specific API

  3. Low-Level API ↔ API with more granular control over software Module or Hardware, with fewer Abstraction

  4. Encapsulation ↔ (Paradigm) to pack properties & methods into component, to keep private and restrict access (unless expose via API)

  5. Documentation Generator ↔ Dev tool to autogen API docs

  6. WebSocket ↔ Interface Object & Constructor to access WebSockets API

  7. Platform API ↔ extra APIs extends JS for specific Runtime Environment

  8. JSON ↔ Global Object API to acccess Static Method to convert/parse JSON

  9. Memo() ↔ React function from useMemo() API for Memoization of any function !snippet for addition

<code>import</code>  {memo} 
const add = (a, b) => a + b;
const memAdd = memo(add)

  1. Web Service ↔ API to access over HTTP

  2. cors ↔ Node.js Module for CORS to open up API so accessible by other Domains

  3. events ↔ Node API for event API

  4. Interface Object ↔ Object to interact with API by expose Method & Property Key

  5. Resource-based ↔ of REST to expose API as logical resource-based URLs

  6. Public APIs Collection ↔ Github Repo of free APIs by categorty, HTTP Access

  7. typesense ↔ FOSS ⚡🔍Search Engine X-lang/X-plat Client API - free to self-host

  8. ElasticSearch ↔ powerful Search Engine API notoriously hard to set up?! GP high config can do everything but complex

  9. namespace ↔ TS Syntax to group related Code (mainly for APIs)

  10. docusaurus ↔ React Framework SSG CMS for API docs as SPA with built-in Routing + MDX support

  11. Content Repo ↔ DB to store/mod digital content, for search/serve, API to link CMS

  12. Headless CMS ↔ Backend-only CMS to decouple content from (Frontend) code, expose Content Repo by API

  13. GraphQL ↔ Query Language with Type Sys/Schema to fetch/mutate (graph-like) data on Backend API/Online API. To fix Overfetch/Underfetch. X-lang

  14. Long Tasks API ↔ API to report tasks > 50ms Blocking Main Thread