Complete beginner with Web APIs and REST. Have been asked to create something.

Factual Questions
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Hi.

I wondered if somebody might be able to guide me in a good direction for getting started writing a web application that talks to a REST API.

I have a fair grip of PHP, Javascript, Jquery, (with some experience of AJAX) but have never even come close to working with an API before.

Would there be a way of building a very simple little pointless application that would ‘simulate’ the way an application talks to a REST API?

Or does anyone know of a resource that will help a complete beginner get started writing somethign that can talk to a REST API?

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Here’s a complete walkthru of how to create one using Node, which is just server-side javascript so you should be able to follow it.

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Thanks!

I will start reading through that. It looks like it will be easy to follow.