12. Bonus: Get swapi.co data from the back end (time permitting)
12.1. “Stash” our previous edits
We need to configure Git to allow us to “stash” the changes we make so we can move from branch to branch.
Copy and paste the following commands in the Glitch console:
- Add fake user data to the git configuration and “stash” changes
git config --global user.email "you@example.com" && git config --global user.name "Your Name" && git stash
12.2. Checkout branch 4
Let’s “checkout” the next stage of our back end application to get and serve data from https://swapi.co instead of serving data directly from our back end.
Copy and paste the following commands in the Glitch console:
- Checkout branch 4
git checkout 4 - Refresh the Glitch file system to see branch 4
refresh
12.3. Follow along with the instructor
Let’s get and serve data from swapi.co!
- Edit routes.js
- Edit controllers.js
- Test the new API endpoint in the browser using different resource parameters