What is api?

[FaysalAhmed155]

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I'm new at programming. I don't know what is a API. Can anyone tell me about this?

[webdevmahdi]

The full form of API is Application Programming Interface. API is mainly used to communicate with the back-end server from the front-end. API can hold a lot of information with itself.

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