New Lesson: RESTful APIs

Lesson: RESTful APIs

https://github.com/TheOdinProject/curriculum/issues/28807

Lesson overview

Cover RESTful APIs and how to write them.

Lesson outline

The following items define the scope of the lesson. The lesson outline is flexible; you can improve, expand, and omit items whilst writing lesson content (make sure the pull request description mentions that).

Discuss what RESTful APis are
Explain that URLs, HTTP methods, and HTTP response status codes are important
Remind learners they can respond to a request with a JSON via res.json method
Share examples of RESTful APIs like the GitHub API https://docs.github.com/en/rest/commits/commits?apiVersion=2022-11-28

Acceptance criteria

If the requirements here are not met, the work effort is not complete.

[ ] Lesson conforms to the outline above (unless outline has been modified).
[ ] Lesson follows our Layout Style Guide.

Additional information

Get the lesson template

Download the lesson template using the following command (replace lesson_name with the actual lesson name):

curl -o <lesson_name>.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheOdinProject/curriculum/main/templates/lesson-template.md

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