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Consuming live data using a REST API

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Consuming live data using a REST API

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- [Presenter] Over the course of the next several videos, we're going to create a little status update app for a hotel website, the Landon Hotel. We're going to interface with a simple API to retrieve messages and post new ones. This will be another step closer to a real-world project since there will be actual data fetching and posting involved. Taking a look at this mockup, I've loaded mockup.html here in the browser from the first chapter, and we can see our status updates here. This is a mockup of what we'll be building. We have a small form over here that's going to post the status updates from various parts of the hotel over here with who it's from and the date and time. So let's look at this and think about the components that we're going to need. We'll have one big component to wrap up everything. We could call that the status message manager. Then we'll have a post form component over here. We'll make its form elements controlled as we did before, so we know we'll have to…

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