Hack Questions

Benefit of using and API?

• Easy access to Internet data
  • Extract data, consolidate and organize needed information
  • More productive than looking at a large table from outside sources to search for the information you need
• When using an API managed by computers, less human effort is required and workflows can be easily updated to become faster and more productive
• New content and information can be published and shared with your entire audience efficiently
• APIs allow developers to be more productive by reusing code in complex but repetitive processes.
• They don’t need to start from scratch as the API specifies how to assemble software components in a program.
• APIs exist to make it easy to interface with other developers’ applications.

Benefit(s) of backend implementation?

• Implementing APIs in backend allows us to control specific logistics about how the API is run
  • Control frequency of access to API (ie stay under limit/per month with backend controls
  • If there is a limit, the backend part of the code for the API will be able to regulate this so it does not break the frontend