Advanced Node.js Development

Illustrating working of the JSON data

So to illustrate how JSON data works, we're going to make a request to the geocoding URL that we used earlier in the course. If you remember, we were able to pass in a location and we got some JSON back, describing things like the latitude and longitude, and the formatted address. Now this should still be in your Chrome history.

If you deleted your history, you can go ahead and put https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1301+lombard+st+philadelphia in the address bar. This is the URL I'll be using; you can simply copy it, or you can grab any JSON API URL. I'm going to copy it to the clipboard, head back into Postman, and swap out the URL with the URL I just copied:

Now, I can go ahead ...