Mastering APIs Challenge

Goal: Build a project that demonstrates your ability to make GET and POST requests with any two APIs.

🙌 Show Off Your Project

Completed the challenge? Share your project submission here.

1. Fork this repository
2. Edit the readme.md file
3. Add the link to your project's GitHub repo below the "Projects" heading (copy the example)
4. Commit your changes
5. Create a PR (pull request) to the main branch of my repo

Note:

• Make sure your repo is public
• Explain what your project does and how it works in your project readme.md file
• Hide your private API keys
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🏆 Win a Free Courier Graphic Tee

Tweet your project and tag @trycourier for a chance to win. Requirements:

• Project must use Courier API to send a notification
• Project must use one other API
• Offer is open for limited time

Projects

• Example_Project_Name: https://link_to_project

Sample Project:

👻 Boo, the ghost, can only communicate with the real world through API requests. A very peculiar situation, but I don't make the rules. The most effective way to communicate with APIs is through notifications: 📧 emails, 💬 text messages, 📲 push notifications, 📳 direct messages, take your pick.

In index.js you will find "Ghostifications: Messages from the Afterlife", a simple Node.js project that allows 👻 Boo, the ghost, to communicate with the real world from the afterlife through 📞 notifications.

Setting Up

1. Create a Node.js app Create an empty file called app.js and add the following code to it:

   const http = require('http');
   
   const hostname = '127.0.0.1';
   const port = 3000;
   
   const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
   res.statusCode = 200;
   res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
   res.end('Hello World');
   });
   
   server.listen(port, hostname, () => {
   console.log(`Server running at http://${hostname}:${port}/`);
   });

   📝 Learn more about using Node.js

2. Run your web server using the command node app.js

   You will get a response in the form of Server running at <url>

3. Visit http://localhost:3000 or the <url> from the command's response to view it

   The server will display "Hello World!", which you will recognize is from your app.js on line 9: res.end('Hello World');. Try changing the argument of res.end() to and re-run the node app.js command to see how you can manipulate your new app.

   📝 Learn more what's happening in the code

GET Request: get your

POST Request: send notifications with Courier