Using APIs with JS and Fetch

Today’s topics

• Using JSON for retrieving data
• Basics of HTTP requests
• Make requests with Insomnia client to GET data
• Make GET requests using the Fetch API and display response data on a page

Project

Create a GitHub Profile

Link to assignment invitation

Links and resources

• Illustrated Dev: Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data
• AJAX explained by analogy
• Insomnia client
• GitHub API Docs
• MDN Fetch API
• MDN fetch() method
• CSS-Tricks article on using Fetch
• MDN JS Promise

Code, slides, and video from class

• There are no slides for this topic today
• Using fetch with the GitHub API demo code
• morning class video Access Password: 9N@48@*v
• afternoon class video Access Password: 9O@Sys7%