Client Library

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A reusable library that helps an application interact with another service, protocol, or platform by abstracting requests, responses, retries, authentication, and error handling. Client libraries reduce repeated integration code and can encode best practices or protocol details in one place.

    In plain English: A library that helps applications talk to another service or API.

    Example: "The team published a client library for the payment API so every service did not have to reimplement signing, retries, and pagination."

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