Api icons

The 16 api icons in Developer Tools, described

APIapi

An API — the interface one program offers another, its endpoints and its contract.

API bridgeapi-bridge

An API bridge — an adapter that lets one system reach into another.

Clientclient

A client — the small thing that asks, the frontend or caller of a service.

Endpointendpoint

An endpoint — one URL or route that a service answers on for a request.

GraphQLgraphql

GraphQL — a query language where you ask for exactly the fields you want.

GraphQL nodegraphql-node

A GraphQL node — one field in a query, and what hangs off it.

gRPCgrpc

gRPC — two services calling each other in binary over protobuf.

OpenAPIopenapi

OpenAPI — the Swagger document that describes an API's endpoints and schemas.

Rate limitrate-limit

A rate limit — many asking and fewer let through, a throttle that returns 429.

Requestrequest

A request — the call going out from a client to a server, asking for something.

Responseresponse

A response — what came back from the server after a request was made.

RESTrest

REST — HTTP verbs against addresses, the CRUD style of web API.

Spanspan-tool

A span — how long each piece of a request actually took, one bar in a trace waterfall.

Status codestatus-code

A status code — the number that says how a request went, 200, 404 or 500.

Timeouttimeout

A timeout — it took too long, so the request was stopped at the deadline.

WebSocketwebsocket

A WebSocket — a connection opened once and kept open both ways, live.

In code, each is one import — import { Api } from "@iconmind/react/icons/api" — and the same name in Vue, Svelte, Solid, Preact, React Native, Astro, Blade and Flutter.

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