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API endpoint
An API endpoint is a specific URL that an API exposes for performing one particular operation, such as fetching or creating a specific kind of data.
Prerequisite: API
What matters
Each endpoint typically corresponds to one distinct capability, so understanding an API often means learning its list of endpoints and what each one does.
Example
A blogging API might expose '/posts' as an endpoint for listing posts and '/posts/42' as a separate endpoint for one specific post.
Common misconception
An API endpoint is not the same as an entire API; a single API is usually made up of many separate endpoints, each handling one operation.
Recall question
What does one API endpoint typically correspond to?
Keywords and related concepts
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