API stands for application program interface and APIs are used all over the internet in general an API is a way for a database to communicate with something else it could be an individual a website like github.com or an app like Cuba the information goes both ways and can be used as a request sending information or changing information what you need to know about API is there’s a few different types of API’s but all of them work to share information.
GraphQL vs Rest API
The differences between the graph QL API and the REST API to do that we’re going to use an example where we want some information about users who have commented on ten different issues in five different repositories all owned by the same user with the REST API we have to make sixteen different calls to get this information and each one gives us a lot of information some of the informationRead more
