--- title: Many Developers Struggle With Explaining APIs | daily.dev description: Many newcomers struggle with this concept, and many get some vague ideas about it and assume that they know what it is. API is some code that you didn’t write... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/many-developers-struggle-with-explaining-apis-dunehbcrb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Many Developers Struggle With Explaining APIs | daily.dev og:description: Many newcomers struggle with this concept, and many get some vague ideas about it and assume that they know what it is. API is some code that you didn’t write... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/many-developers-struggle-with-explaining-apis-dunehbcrb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DunEhBcRB.png og:image:alt: Many Developers Struggle With Explaining APIs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Many Developers Struggle With Explaining APIs **[JavaScript in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish)** · [@polymathsomnath](https://daily.dev/polymathsomnath) · 16 min read · 14 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Many newcomers struggle with this concept, and many get some vague ideas about it and assume that they know what it is. API is some code that you didn’t write yourself, and that code has some methods that you are allowed to call. It could be something that you download and run from your computer or it could besomething that’s someplace else on the web. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@samdevelops** · 1 upvotes > Quite a few typos but a good read, thanks :) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/many-developers-struggle-with-explaining-apis-dunehbcrb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Many Developers Struggle With Explaining APIs","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/many-developers-struggle-with-explaining-apis-dunehbcrb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/many-developers-struggle-with-explaining-apis-dunehbcrb"},"datePublished":"2021-01-31T09:14:37.040Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Many newcomers struggle with this concept, and many get some vague ideas about it and assume that they know what it is. 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