TrueCoders bootcamp exercise in learning third party APIs and async await. Fetches a random Gif from Giphy.
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JavaScript APIs
Getting Started
Open your command line and navigate to your repos directory (if you do not have a repos folder, then you can use mkdir repos to create one)
Use this template repository to start a new project in your repos folder: git clone <repo_name>
cd repo_name to navigate into your new repo directory
Start Visual Studio Code and select 'Open Folder'. Then select repo_name to open the folder in the editor (or just type code . in your terminal inside the repo directory)
Follow the instructions on the README.md file to complete exercises
Open the index.html file to get started
Exercise 1
Let's play around with API calls to Giphy
Open your index.html
Beneath the p tag, but before the img tag, add the following:
Label, input, and button
Feel free to label and style
Open your app.js
Add an event listener to the button that listens for a click event, and does the following:
Selects the img element and assigns it to a variable
Selects the input element, grabs the value from the element and assigns it to a variable