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If you finished all the projects
up to this unit, you're so

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close to finishing and
graduating from the tech degree.

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Congratulations.

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Now, if you're just taking a look
ahead at one of your future projects,

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that's great too.

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Just keep studying and building and you'll
be up to this point in tech degree soon.

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This project uses what's called an API or
Application Programming Interface.

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You will retrieve data from another
website and display it on your web page.

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This is a really important skill to
learn as a front end web developer.

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And let's say you tap into data
from other sites like Twitter,

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Instagram, Spotify,
Google and a whole lot more.

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In this project, you'll use
an API to grab employee data and

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display it on a web page.

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It's not real information,
this is just for practice.

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But it is a real API and

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you'll learn how to use JavaScript
to talk to another web server.

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You'll also add some interactive features
like pop up details when you click

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on one of the employees cards.

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In addition,
the form field lets you filter

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information to locate just
the employee you're looking for.

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This project will really stretch
your JavaScript skills, so

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be sure to pay attention in this unit to
our courses on AJAX and the Fetch API.

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Most importantly have fun and
keep programming.