When an app needs data, it doesn't "open" a database. It sends a request to an API and waits for a clear answer. That's where FlaskAPI work fits in: building ...

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Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of ...

Application programming interfaces allow for the linking of databases and the sharing of data across apps. With APIs, two applications can communicate with each other without understanding how the ...

Why? Because it will take WordPress into new directions entirely. WordPress has unveiled its latest iteration, version 4.4. It's called Clifford, after the jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, and comes ...