Resources and network request

Resource

To best comprehend what a resource is, consider the following analogy,

Marks-5 is an hypothetical elite special forces unit in the Nigerian Army. The unit's duties include conducting the most deadly and crucial search and rescue missions; among other things, they have been known to recover abducted individuals and confiscate illicit weapons from the Mafia. All of their missions are top priority, and they know how to get the cargo back, whether it includes people, weapons, or drugs, the cargo is central to the mission.

In the same vein, everything on the internet is a resource, just like Marks-5's cargo --- a music on Spotify, the file you sent to your friend on WhatsAPP, your user profile on Facebook, an HTML page, a Google search result; everything on the internet is a resource.

Making a network request

In this section we would use JavaScript programming language to make a network request.

You can change users in const key = "users" to either recipe, todos, comments, or post to fetch that specific resource.

To make this request, click on the play icon at the top right corner of the code snippet.

const key = "comments"; // change this line

fetch(`https://dummyjson.com/${key}?limit=2`)
  .then((res) => res.json())
  .then(console.log);

The above response may not seem typical but don't fret, the most important lesson here is that you made a request to a resource and you received a successful response. Congratulations! 🎉