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📖 Carolopedia › APIGuide page
📖What it means
The set of calls one piece of software offers another — the door code knocks on instead of reaching inside. Apps expose one so their data can be read without anyone opening their store directly.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Route
An API answers calls from code; a route serves pages to people.
Not: Contract
The API is the door; the contract is what it promises through it.
🗣️Also called
endpoint setinterfacethe calls