I never would have guessed how great Wolfram Language would be for exploring a REST API!
I’ve been using it to access YNAB's API, but I can demonstrate how nice it is with JSONPlaceholder’s example REST API. JSONPlaceholder’s site shows the experience that I’d come to expect from languages that run in a terminal:
But check this out:
On the web version of this notebook, that’s a static image, but on my computer in Mathematica, that’s a fully-interactive table!
It gets more sophisticated when there are many rows, like when you fetch all the todos:
But wait until you see how it handles nested objects…!
Awesome. I’m definitely reaching for Mathematica first from now on.
