Reading-Notes

Class 07: Node.Js

• How I explained REST to my brother

• Api Keys

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How I explained REST to my brother

• Who is Roy Fielding?

  • one of the principle authors of the http specification and the originator of the representational state transfer architectural style or REST.

• Why don’t the techniques that we use today work well when we need to be able to talk to all of the machines in the world?

  - most of the techniques that developers used to get machines 
  to talk to each other didn't have the requirements to talk to 
  all the machines in the world instead machines could only talk 
  to a small group.
  

• What is the HTTP protocol that Fielding and his friends created?

  • REST

• What does a GET do?

  • request data from a specified resource.

• What does a POST do?

  • adds something from one system to another

• What does PUT do?

  • replace something in another system

• What does PATCH do?

  • partial update on the system

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Api Keys

• Geocoding API

  • Did you get your API key? yes

• Weather Bit API

  • Did you get your API key? yes

• Yelp API Docs

  • Did you get your API key? no

• The Movie DB API Docs

  • Did you get your API key? yes