Star Wars API exploration Lab

Let's get our hands dirty with some more Ajax calls. We'll be using the popular Star Wars API (SWAPI): https://swapi.dev/ . Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the documentation and how the API works.

Here's what we'll be building: 

Figure 7.8 – Star Wars exploration

You can experiment with the functionality at https://packtpublishing.github.io/Hands-on-JavaScript-for-Python-Developers/chapter-7/swapi/solution-code/. Try to resist the temptation to peruse the solution code until after you've tried your hand at recreating the functionality.

Here's what our code should do:

1. Display a loader on page load. This loader is provided for you as a CSS animation.
2. Call the /people SWAPI endpoint to retrieve all people in the API. Hint: you will need to call SWAPI more than once to get all of the people.
3. Populate the select list with the names of the people and hide the loader.
4. When Go is clicked, make another...