Jumping into back-end from front-end (or vice versa) can be intimidating. Sure, both sides are just code in the end, but the technology and practices are different. With back-end, we manage data. With front-end, we manage user experience. But, in between them lies a bridge: the API. When we write…

As programmers, we write code to tell computers what to do. The computer translates this code into operations, and then executes those operations with some amount of space in memory in some amount of time. …