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JavaScript Build a REST API With Express Completing and Testing the API Next Steps

David Lloyd
David Lloyd
2,800 Points
Posted by David Lloyd
David Lloyd
2,800 Points

Hello there, I need assistance connecting my API to my client.

I built a client side app and need to connect it to the API that I built while watching this course. Im not able to see how to do that. Do I add a script tag with the port that connects the files and if so how do I go about doing so?

Thanks!!

Dave

1 Answer

jay aljoe
jay aljoe
4,113 Points
jay aljoe
jay aljoe
4,113 Points

hey David, excellent question. Well to connect your back-end API to the front-end of your application, you need to send Ajax calls to the API endpoints. for example, if you want to get all the questions, you would send GET Ajax call from the front-end of your application to the back-end API. And when the API responds back with the data, your front-end application would display it properly. I would recommend you watch the treehouse ajax course as it goes in-depth for that matter.