Layman's Guide to API documentation
API stands for Application Programming Interface. API is an interface between system software and application software. API documentation deals with documenting the software code to help its users. These documents describe the programming interface of a product and explain how to integrate them with other products or systems. API and API documentation can be elaborated as below: API (Application Programming Interface) is the language that help system communicate each other. It serves as an intermediary that receives our commands and returns data responses using public methods, dedicated URLs, and properties. It also gives you access to a company’s data and database(s). API is neither a server nor a database. It is the code running over the lines that govern the access point(s) for the Server. API documentation describes what services an API offers and how to use those services. APIs are aimed at simplifying the complex data, in order to let the computers accomplish their work in l