APIs step by step
What is API?
API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. Each time you use an app like Facebook, send an instant message, or check the weather on your phone, you’re using an API.
What is Web API?
Web APIs are simple Non-SOAP-based HTTP services. We have client-side and server-side, when it comes to server-side, data stored on a database and WEB API acts as an intermediary that fetches data or inserts data to the DB. On the client-side, the actions take place on the user computer. To communicate between client-side and server-side we need REST Apis. ASP.Net Web API is a framework for building HTTP services. We can do different operations using APIs like update invoice details, Insert new user, delete customer order, etc
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