How To Build an API in 2022

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
hygraph
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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