API , commonly know as Application Programming interface is a modern approach to develop scalable web apps. API allows to share common functionality for web and mobile development.
API help to avoid repetitive coding and it also add re usability
For example a shopping cart web application require listing products,adding new product, receiving orders from user etc. This can be the same in the case of a mobile application too. So we can create a web API and use the API in web apps and mobile alike and just need to code once.
How to create and use API
API can be created using any frame work , PHP,Nodejs, JavaScript,Python, ASP C#.Net etc, it is a programming concept.
- How to add data on MongoDB using Node-Express API - How to use Nodejs-Express API to perform CURD operations on MongoDB
- What is an API and how to create an API ? - What is an API, what is the need of an API. Learn to build and use API in web applications and non web applications
- How to create a REST API using Mongodb and Express in Nodejs - How to create a REST API using Express and MongoDB in Nodejs
- How to create an API using Express in Nodejs - How to create a simple API using Express in Nodejs
Using jQuery and AJAX we can use the existing API in any HTML/web application.
Following API tutorials may help you to learn more
- How to add data on MongoDB using Node-Express API - How to use Nodejs-Express API to perform CURD operations on MongoDB
- POST API Call using jQuery and AJAX - How to make a POST API call in HTML/web app using jQuery and AJAX
- GET API Call using jQuery and AJAX - How to make a get API call in HTML/web app using jQuery and AJAX
- How to create animated tool tip container with CSS and jQuery - How to add a custom animated tool tip functionality using CSS and jQuery
- How to add/remove CSS class using jQuery - How to add and remove visual appearance (CSS) to container using jQuery
- How to show/hide DOM element using jQuery - How to show and hide a div with jQuery.
- How to redirect a page in jQuery - How to redirect a web page in jQuery
- How to load content into div using jQuery - How to add content to a div in HTML page using jQuery
- How to refresh / reload content to a div using jQuery - How to load/refresh content every 5 second using JQuery in HTML / web page
