Make REST calls from Visual Studio Code | REST extension for VS Code | REST | Visual Studio Code

This video describes how to make REST calls from Visual Studio Code using Rest Client extension.

1. Install REST Client extension
2. Make REST calls
3. Configure environment settings to call APIs based on target environments such as Dev, QA, Prod.

Samples as described in the video:

1. Sample environment setting:
"$shared": {
"contentType":"application/json",
"qualifier": "dev"
},
"dev": {
"qualifier": "dev"
},
"qa": {
"qualifier": "qa"
}
}

2. Sample API calls from Visual Studio Code:
GET {{host}}/{{qualifier}} HTTP/1.1

###
PUT {{host}} HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: {{contentType}}

{
"date": "2022-09-03T12:49:20.1090257-04:00",
"temperatureC": -5,
"temperatureF": 24,
"summary": "Cool",
"source": "QA"
}