Articles in the Season 01 category
Issue 1: Why make an app?
Issue 2: Don’t reinvent the wheel
Issue 3: What is all this clutter?
Issue 4: What is an API?
Issue 5: What is JSON?
Issue 6: How do you use an API?
Issue 7: What is HTTP?
HTTP is a set of rules for sending and receiving webpages that link to other webpages. According to the rules, if you want a webpages, you (the client) must send a (HTTP) request to a server, which will return a response.
Issue 8: HTTP error codes—How does a server let the client know if there’s something wrong with their HTTP request?
A request or a response consists of a header and a body. The response header contains information about the response. The status code in the response header determines if the request was successful or unsuccessful.