React Js / REST API Integration

POSTMAN APIs

January 09, 2022

API can be compared to a waiter in a restaurant, who takes requests from clients/customer to a chef in the kitchen, then gets back to the customer with feedback, either with the food ordered present or not. Same way, API acts as a link between a user of a program and a server.

Client/customer = user
API = waiter
Chef = Server
API full form is Application Programming Interface.

POSTMAN APIs

Postman is an API platform used for building & testing APIs. It provide organized collection of data & test of APIs graphically (GUI) with numbers of HTTP requests like.. GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, POST and DELETE.

GET - Retrieve information
PUT/PATCH- Update information

Download API Data

{
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "json-server",
      "author": "typicode"
    },
    {
      "name": "reactjs",
      "location": "hyderabad",
      "duration": "45days",
      "phone": "123456789",
      "id": 2
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "body": "some comment",
      "postId": 1
    }
  ],
  "profile": {
    "name": "typicode"
  }
}