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Laurence kite
11,768 PointsI just finished the JavaScript creating a command line app using node.js But don't understand what REST api meansbe
I just finished the JavaScript creating a command line app using node.js But don't understand what REST api means
All I understand is that the https.get requests some data eg the weather the temperature in London.
Then if the response is ok eg 200 then it can be parsed into a Json object giving us keys and value pairs to access..
Is this a REST Api and if so why, and what is a stream Api..
As an aside during the development of the weather app.js I tried to use call backs that return objects and even simple strings but they don't seem to work?
const https = require('https');
//Require http module for status codess
const username = "chalkers";
const http = require('http');
function get() {
const request = https.get(https://teamtreehouse.com/${username}.json, response=> {
let body = "";
response.on('data', (chunk)=> {
body += chunk.toString();
}); response.on('end', ()=> { result = JSON.parse(body); console.log(result.points.total); let points = result.points.total; return points; });
}); }ng let temp = get(); console.log(temp);
temp is undefined is this the non blocking nature