REST - REpresentational State Transfer

6 Principles

Client - Server
Stateless
Cacheable
Uniform interfaces
- identification of resources
- manipulation of resources through representation
- self descriptive messages
- hypermedia
Layered System
Code on demand (optional)

Github API

https://docs.github.com/en/rest

using curl
HTTP verbs - GET VS POST
versioning
authentication
hypermedia
rate limiting

Showroom Project - Live Coding Exercise

based on Github API
intro to showroom project

Consuming REST APIs

using fetch
the joys of rate limits
authentication
extracting to a hook
error handling
organizing code by layers for reusability, composability
polling

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