Getting Data Using APIs with JS and Fetch

Today’s topics

• Today’s first goal is to complete the customer database.
• The next task is to prepare to start working with fetch and AJAX tomorrow.
  • Using JSON for data
  • Basics of HTTP requests
  • Make GET requests with Insomnia client
  • Make GET requests using the Fetch API and display response data on a page

✅ Pre-work for before class tomorrow

• Complete Thinkific: JavaScript and the Fetch API
• Complete Code Academy Lesson on Fetch
• Read AJAX explained by analogy

🎯 Project: Choose Your Own Adventure

Your assignment is to do one of the following assignments. Whichever you choose, it will be due on Friday morning.

• 🌶 AJAX GitHub profile
• 🌶🌶 AJAX Currency Converter

🔖 Resources

HTTP

• MDN: HTTP Messages
• Response Codes With Cats

APIs

• Illustrated Dev: Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data
• Insomnia client
• GitHub API Docs

AJAX, Fetch, & JSON

• MDN AJAX
• MDN Fetch API
• MDN fetch() method
• CSS-Tricks article on using Fetch
• MDN Working with JSON

⭐ EXTRA/TMI

Fetch requests use JavaScript promises to handle responses. Promises are a much bigger topic than we will get into right now, but if you want to know more about what a promise is and how to use it beyond the context of AJAX requests, you can start with the MDN documentation about it.

• MDN JS Promise

🦉 Notes

• Notes on AJAX
• Starter code for the assignment: using fetch with the Github API