To build a Pokedex in a command-line REPL. I'll use the PokéAPI to power all of the Pokemon data.
A Pokedex is just a make-believe device from Pokemon that lets us look up information about Pokemon - things like their name, type, and stats.
I'm mostly doing this because...
- How to parse JSON in Go
- Making HTTP requests in Go
- Back-end server interactions via CLI
- Learn about caching and how to use it to improve performance