In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what APIs are, the API standards that exist, and walk through the various layers of what goes into making an API.

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Show Notes

00:10 Welcome
02:40 What are APIs?
06:09 API Standards
13:56 What about GRPC?
15:52 What is TRPC?
19:19 Sponsor: Payments Hub
20:25 API Cake Layers
mySQL
Postgres
Mongo DB
SQLite
SQLizer
26:51 Server layer
33:28 Sponsor: LogRocket
34:36 Authentication layer
43:28 Caching layer
46:09 Sponsor: Freshbooks
46:38 Client layer
Prisma: Package, but also a service
keystone: Package
Strapi: Package
Sanity: Service
Prismic: Service
Hasura: Open Source and Service
Contentful
https://hygraph.com/
48:01 Should I use x or y?
51:35 Tools
GraphQL Playground
Graphiql
Postman
Insomnia
TablePlus
Studio3T
56:27 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
00:20 Knife Talk

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