APIs & Async JavaScript

Estimated Time: 20 hours

Status: ☐ Not Started

🎯 Objectives

• Understand what an API is and how data is exchanged using JSON
• Use the Fetch API to make HTTP requests
• Learn the basics of async/await and Promises
• Build dynamic applications that consume real-time external data

🔥 Primer (Before Anything Else)

You will be 100% ready for APIs if you do this short pre-series:

🎥 Pre-API Mini Series (30–45 min total)

1. What Is an API? (4 mins)
2. How the Web Works – Request/Response (12 mins)
3. Postman Beginner Tutorial – Visual API Tester (15 mins)
4. Make Your First API Call with Fetch (10 mins)

💡 These will:

• Show you the concept before the code
• Visualize the data flow (you ↔︎ server)
• Let you test API calls without code first using Postman

🛠 Updated Task Flow: