APIs make apps like a restaurant

Simplified explanation of APIs

You walk into a restaurant and are seated.

The waiter walks up and hands you a menu. You browse the menu looking over the available choices. You decide what you want and tell the server your choices.

The waiter sends the order to the kitchen. The kitchen completes your order and sends the food back the same as your order.

In a perfect world, this is how you order food in a restaurant but it’s parallel to the way an API (application programming…