URL Shortening Page using VanillaJS

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  Maina Kibe•260

  @MainakibePosted over 3 years ago

  Amazing! I am currently working on this exact project myself and I am experiencing a problem with creating the API link shortener and integrating it with localStorage. Could you help?

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  Jeuri Morel•1,385

  @JeuriMorelPosted over 3 years ago

  @Mainakibe I could try! What exactly is the problem you're experiencing?

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  Maina Kibe•260

  @MainakibePosted over 3 years ago

  @JeuriMorel APIs...I am a beginner when it comes to that. I have been going through some tutorials but I just cannot get it!

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  Jeuri Morel•1,385

  @JeuriMorelPosted over 3 years ago

  @Mainakibe Ok. I'm not sure what exactly I'd be able to explain better than a tutorial. Personally, I like watching video tutorials of people coding small projects. That helps me a lot. And when I don't understand something about it, I look up documentation. Here's a video of someone doing a small project where he uses Fetch multiple times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oive66jrwBs

  Some things you might want to look up documentation for: Fetch Promises Async Functions JSON Template Literals

  Working with APIs is quite simple once you wrap your head around it. You make a request to them, telling them what info you want, and they send data back to you. For this challenge, you send a request to the API with the URL you want to shorten attached to it. I don't know if you saw this, but in the challenge they link to the shrtcode API Documentation. This shows you how to request data from it: https://shrtco.de/docs/

  Hope this helps.

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