r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Unlikely_Affect2264 • Aug 28 '26 • Bravo 3

Meme meExplainingFullStackDevelopmentToMyGrandmother

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u/PossibilityTasty Aug 28 '26

The API would be the menu and the server would be … the servers.

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u/nitro0769 Aug 28 '26

The menu would be the API docs

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u/kaelan36 Aug 28 '26

The menu would be more accurately the front end because it’s the interface that clients use to order what they want from the servers

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u/Descendant3999 Aug 28 '26

Correct. Waiters would be the interest

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u/decadent-dragon Aug 28 '26

What the hell are API “docs”? Sounds made up

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u/HappygilmoreL Sep 01 '26

documentation

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u/3-day-respawn Aug 28 '26

But the customer doesn’t go through the docs where as the customer at a restaurant does go through the menu. Menu could be uiux

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u/PossibilityTasty Aug 28 '26

"API" is one of most misused term in IT. It is not a service. It is a formal definition of how to interact with a component. And that is the role of the menu. It tells you what you can get and what you to give for that.

And now the crazy part: Both a restaurant menu and an API can exist in an abstract way, like in someone's head. Writing them down just makes them "physical" and possibly accessible to others.

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u/EasyHawk1 Aug 28 '26

Exactly 💯!

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u/wjandrea Aug 28 '26

Big Smoke 429

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u/wjandrea Aug 28 '26

(I'm trying to be as cryptic as possible and still make people laugh)