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API documentation and testing

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- [Instructor] Even a great API is hard to use if people don't know how to use it. In this module, we'll focus on documenting and testing our API endpoints, so they're easy to understand, easy to explore, and easy to validate. While we haven't included OpenAPI or Swagger in this project yet, it's good practice to keep your endpoints well-structured and self-describing. The API APOD routes use clear paths and HTTP verbs. /today returns today's image, /date date fetches a date, /random gives you a surprise, and /history supports pagination with page and page size. For manual testing, we've included an Insomnia workspace under the server/api-test/insomnia. This YAML file defines all the routes and example requests you'll need to explore the API from a REST client. Insomnia makes it easy to simulate edge cases like requesting a missing date or hitting the API without pagination parameters. These scenarios help you validate both our happy path and our responses. Each route returns…

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