Terms we picked up in the API examples.
- API Provider -- waits for a request from an API consumer, then processes that request, and returns the results (often in JSON format)
- API Consumer -- sends a request to an API provider, and reads the request results (which are often in JSON format)
- Endpoints -- explained here...
- JSON -- Developer friendly data format for the purpose of data-interchange.
- API key -- A key typically used to both authenticate and uniquely identify an API consumer
Introduction To Node.js
(Chapter 310 - API)