Here’s how you choose between an SDK and an API

I’ve been a developer for about eight years now, but I was already faced with the challenge of choosing between using an SDK vs. API well within the first year of working as a dev. After achieving beginner proficiency in web applications, I was tasked with integrating points of interest data for a tourism website to help people discover and explore new places. I started out by delving into the seemingly daunting task of planning for API integration by reading the developer documentation. While doing so, I came across an option for using an SDK instead and it quickly changed…

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