APIs — how apps talk to each other
APIs — how apps talk to each other. Part of The Vibe Coder Series: the tech terms you keep hearing, explained fast and visual for people who ship with AI. ~11 min, no CS degree required.
Chapters:
0:00 APIs
0:34 Every app is an island
1:09 An API is a menu
1:41 The waiter & the kitchen
2:30 Request in, response out
3:02 A verb and an address
3:36 Read, create, update, delete
4:24 Status codes as traffic lights
5:03 The data comes back as text
5:51 One real call to Stripe
6:35 The API key
7:13 Rate limits
7:50 You use APIs all day
8:43 Most of the web is machines
9:17 3 gotchas
9:54 The whole thing in 3 lines
10:21 Webhooks
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— Made with AI-assisted motion graphics; real docs/repos shown on screen are the original sources.