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Random Thoughts Roughly Organized

CSS​

  • CSS Processing

Web Fundamentals​

  • How do you read the Network tab in Chrome DevTools? What is it showing?

RESTful APIs​

  • RESTful APIs are built to facilitate the front-end to back-end connection with some best practices
  • you can try deploying the API under a dedicated domain name like https://api.domain.com or https://example.com/api/
  • You can also version the api like this: https://api.example.com/v1/
  • Each path, or URL, is an endpoint that contains a resource that you want. So for zoos, animals, and employees, the endpoints would look like this:
    • https://api.example.com/v1/zoos
    • https://api.example.com/v1/animals
    • https://api.example.com/v1/employees
  • The HTTP verbs then correspond to what you are trying to do:
    • GET = SELECT
    • POST = CREATE
    • PUT = UPDATE
    • PATCH = UPDATE
    • DELETE = DELETE
  • Here are some examples of what how it would work using the above api:
    • GET /zoos: List all zoos
    • POST /zoos: Create a new zoo
    • GET /zoos/ID: Get information of a specified zoo
    • PUT /zoos/ID: Update the information of a specified zoo (provide all the information of the zoo)
    • PATCH /zoos/ID: Update the information of a specified zoo
    • DELETE /zoos/ID: delete a zoo
    • GET /zoos/ID/animals: List all animals in a specified zoo
    • DELETE /zoos/ID/animals/ID: delete the specified animal from a specified zoo