Design and Build Great Web APIs

Chapter Exercise

In the previous chapter, we used curl to make a series of API calls (via HTTP) and saved them to disk. Now it’s time to organize those responses into our first Git repository. We’ll use this repository (or repo) to hold all the project-specific materials we’ll be generating in the upcoming chapters.

In the last exercise (see ​Chapter Exercise​), we used curl to make requests to BigCo’s existing services and saved the responses to a folder on our machine called services. We also added a folder with the same name to our Git repo earlier in this chapter (See ​Adding a New Folder​). Now it’s time to put these two exercises together and make sure all our saved curl responses are added to our Git project’s services folder.

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