API 103: Building Applications with APIs

Number of APIs: 6

API 103: Building Applications with APIs

This collection is a companion to the Qodex Classroom Program workshop API 103: Building Applications with APIs.

See the lesson video. (slides)

What you will learn

• Use Glitch as a free web server for your app
• Build a web app using Node/Express, HTML and JavaScript
• Translate workflows into code
• Debug apps with Qodex

Resources

• Demo (code)
• Demo (try!)
• Glitch
• Qodex Express Starter (Glitch)
• Express documentation
• [Generating code in Qodex]

Getting Started

1. Fork this collection to your own workspace
2. Complete the mission in your turn!

Submitting your work

Once you've finished mission in your turn! mission, follow the instructions on the submit folder

1. your turn!-check your app - check / GET {{YOUR_GLITCH_BASE_URL}}/

2. demo (complete) - check /recommendations POST https://spotify-song-recommender-complete.glitch.me/recommendations

3. your turn!-check your app - check /script.js GET {{YOUR_GLITCH_BASE_URL}}/script.js

4. your turn!-check your app - check /recommendations POST {{YOUR_GLITCH_BASE_URL}}/recommendations

5. your turn!-submit - submit GET https://api.getpostman.com/collections/{{collectionId}}

6. demo (complete) - check frontend GET https://spotify-song-recommender-complete.glitch.me/