https://ikwukao.dev/tags/rest-api/Recent content in REST API on Ikwuka OkoyeHugoen-USSun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ikwukao.dev/journal/pokedexcli-api-client/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ikwukao.dev/journal/pokedexcli-api-client/<h2 id="building-a-reliable-rest-api-client-in-go-for-pokedexcli">Building a Reliable REST API Client in Go for PokedexCLI</h2> <p>A command-line application becomes considerably more interesting when it has to communicate with a remote service.</p> <p>PokedexCLI does not contain all of its data locally. Much of the information the application needs comes from the Pokémon API, which means the application has to deal with HTTP requests, JSON responses, network failures, pagination, and external service boundaries.</p> <p>Rather than allowing every command to construct its own HTTP requests, I treated API communication as a dedicated responsibility.</p>