These are my reading notes for Code Fellows
What’s the difference between PUT and PATCH?
PUT creates a new element, PATCH modifies an existing one.
Provide links to 3 services or tools that allow you to “mock” an API for development like json-server
Compare and contrast Swagger and APIDoc.js
Swagger is open source and can be used on test APIs. APIDoc apears to only be used locally (not via the web).
Which HTTP status codes should be sent with each type of (un)successful API call?
Errors on the client’s side appear as 400 codes (400, 404, etc.). Server-side errors use 500 codes.
Compare and contrast SOAP and ReST
SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol (source). Designed so different languages and platforms could talk to one another. Better suited for enterprise. Requests are returned via XML documents.
REST = Representational State Transfer (source). It is a “set of architectural principles attuned to the needs of lightweight web services and mobile applications.” (source) Requests are sent through HTTP, and once they’re received, information is sent back (in the form of HTML, text, JSON).
Document the following Vocabulary Terms
- Web Server
A web server “stores and delivers the content for a site – such as text, images, video, and application data – to clients that request it.” (source) Talks to browsers via HTTP.
“Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.” (source)
“Routing or router in web development is a mechanism where HTTP requests are routed to the code that handles them. To put simply, in the Router you determine what should happen when a user visits a certain page.” (source)
Web Request Response Cycle. A user might send a request and get a response from a server. WRRC describes that relationship.