Wednesday

Concepts

• Consuming external APIs
• Understanding API documentation, rate limiting, keys
• Providing API keys
• Keeping secrets with .env files
• CORS and proxy API requests
• Testing projects with APIs

Topics

• CORS
• API keys

Exercises

• Exercise: Choose your own API adventure. Select from one of the links below (or find your own public API) and build up some React components around one or more of them.
  • http://wheretheiss.at/w/developer: get the lat/lon of the ISS
  • https://api.nasa.gov/: a library of APIs from NASA