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Why do we have APIs in JavaScript?

Sapinder Singh on October 01, 2021

You've most likely heard of the term API if you have ever worked with JavaScript. There're a ton of them such as- DOM, Storage, Fetch, Canvas, Hist...
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nepha199 •

Thanks to this I can finally understand why they were called APIs despite using them as JS methodsπŸ€¦πŸ½β€β™‚οΈ

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Sapinder Singh •

I’m glad that it’s helpful!

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Sanam •

Great post πŸŽ‰

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westerndad •

Great post😁

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Joseph Osorio •

Nice post. I just saw a good video on this in a Jamstack scenario and reading about it helped me understand API even more. This was nice and simple.

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Sapinder Singh •

Thanks Joseph! It inspired me to write even better!

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1satwinder •

Enjoyed. Keep going

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ReactJSX •

Great read!

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Omar Saudi •

Great post.

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Sapinder Singh •

Thanks Omar πŸ™

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new/bird •

can you explain clouser in javascript?

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Sapinder Singh •

Maybe in one of my next posts :)