title: AngularJS - Do I need lots of API's?
body: <p>I am wondering if I will be needing a lot of API's for my angular application. This is a broad statement so let me explain a few things.</p>
  
  <p>Lets say that on my page I have three selects (dropdown lists).</p>
  
  <p>Fruits, Vegetables, Produce</p>
  
  <p>They all have their own data, </p>
  
  <p>Fruits (ID, Name, Importer Order Number, Importer Name).</p>
  
  <p>Vegetables (ID, Name, Distributer ID).</p>
  
  <p>Produce (ID, Name, Manufacturer Name).</p>
  
  <p>So if I want to populate each of these select statements, will i have to make 3 seprate API calls? Or should I be making 1 API call returning each of these? Is it possible to make 1 API call to return all this data?</p>
  
  <p>If so does anyone have a simple example?</p>
  
  <p>I want to know whats best practice...</p>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>