Working with Web APIs
Learn how to work with web APIs while using the CLI.
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An API, or Application Programming Interface, lets developers interface with An API, or Application Programming Interface, lets developers interface with data without accessing the data directly. Web APIs let us do this by making requests to servers. APIs can let us see current weather conditions, stock prices, sports scores, social media feeds, and pretty much any data we’re looking to consume.
If we’re writing software that interfaces with a third-party web API, or if we’re developing our own, we can use cURL to explore and test that API. We can set headers, define request types, and send data payloads.
To explore this, we need an API we can work with. Instead of using a live API for testing, we use json-server, a Node.js package that provides an API for these types of situations. Let’s set it up inside of the Ubuntu virtual ...