Build a Pokedex in Go
Build a REPL pokedex on the command line in Go. Learn how to use JSON, make network requests, and implement caching. Also available in:
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Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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A REPL, or Read-Eval-Print Loop, is a simple interactive programming environment that takes user input, evaluates it, and returns the result to the user. In this guided project, you'll build a Pokedex-like REPL in Go that uses the PokeAPI to fetch data about Pokemon. It's a great way to put your Go knowledge to the test and learn valuable skills like HTTP networking and data serialization.
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re-writing this project in Go after doing it in Typescript was a fun way to have a direct contrast between both languages
Aleksy Veillette
Montreal, Canada
I love Pokemon! This was really neat to be able to implement. It would be really fun to extend the capabilities. A party system, random encounters, and a battles sounds like fun. Another hit!
Jacob
United States
Great course! Go was pretty new for me, so I had to use Boots quite a bit to help me through. I feel like I became much more familiar with go as a result of completing this.
Sam Davenport
Kansas, USA
Fun way to learn API's
Isaac Wilkinson-Longden
United Kingdom
This course is really great, especially the caching lesson. It allow me to get hands on practice on using goroutine and Ticker method.
Wei Lok Chia
Malaysia
This is a great project that can be expanded to be real portfolio gem
GK
Poland
not the hardest but definitely fun
om shinde
pune
Nice work. I had lot's of fun.
Alexander Bernhofer
Munich (Germany)
Pretty interesting project with a lot of scope to work on in free time. Learnt a lot about JSON parsing.
Mandar Upasani
Pune
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