Lesson: RESTful APIs

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Lesson overview

Cover RESTful APIs and how to write them.

Lesson outline

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• Discuss what RESTful APis are
• Explain that URLs, HTTP methods, and HTTP response status codes are important
• Remind learners they can respond to a request with a JSON via res.json method
• Share examples of RESTful APIs like the GitHub API https://docs.github.com/en/rest/commits/commits?apiVersion=2022-11-28

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• Lesson conforms to the outline above (unless outline has been modified).
• Lesson follows our Layout Style Guide.

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