Summary
In this chapter, you saw what an API is and how it is used to separate the front end (e.g., a web site) from the backend (e.g., a database). We also looked at the simple database and application that we’ll use throughout the book.
In order to demonstrate CRUD operations, we’ll build a simple application focused on a Car object as if we were working with an inventory of cars. We imported it from https://kaggle.com.
This lays the groundwork for the rest of the chapters and for the simple application that we will build. Our focus will be strictly on creating APIs, so we will spend little time on database technology or even on the frontend.
