• Create a web API server that can receive requests from a frontend application, such as React, and send back a JSON response that takes data from the database using your Active Record models.
• Create a GET request that will respond with all starships.
• Create a POST request that allows submission of a new starship.

• Request-response cycle
• HTTP methods
• APIs
• Active Record
• Rack
• Sinatra
• Routes
• Params
• Strong params
• Dynamic Routing

• A combination of communication between the server and client side

1. User types in URL into the browser(client)
2. Server receives the request, processes it and provides a response
3. Response is rendered on client side

• Short for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• HTTP is a protocol(guideline) used for client to server side communication and loading a website. Can also use HTTPS for a more secure communication

• Short for Uniform Resource Locators

Let's break it down:

http://localhost:9292/starships

1. http - the protocol
2. localhost:9292 - the domain(for now)
3. /starships - the endpoint

• By default, the above request will make a GET request, but what happens when we want to make a different type of request?

Let's look at HTTP Verbs:

• A light weight framework used to build full stack web applications or provide an API
• Built with Ruby
• Uses Rack under the hood
• Good introduction to Rails

• GET /starships
• GET /starships/:id
• POST /starships
• PATCH /starships/:id
• DELETE /starships/:id