Overview
This post will talk about how to consume a REST API using Go. We will go through steps to setup the Go project, Go Modules used and how we run the code.
Prerequisites
- Valid Golang installation
If you need instructions on how to install it this is a good place to start https://golang.org/doc/install
Introduction
I’ve been meaning to start a developer blog of some sort for a while but never seem to get around to doing so. With the second lockdown still in force for England it seems like now is a good time.
This is a popular task to complete as developer so I figured it would be a good one to start with. The API that will be used in this post is icanhazdadjoke as you can probably guess from the URL it will return a joke when called. To get started let’s create a new directory that will hold the project. …
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