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How did it go?

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Great job if you got it and

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it's okay if you didn't because
I'll share my solution with you.

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First, we'll need to require the HTTPS
module so that we can use our get request.

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We'll create a function named getDef that
takes a term from the command line to

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search for
from the Merriam Webster Dictionary.

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Now we'll create a request that
uses the dictionary API url,

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including the term interpolated and
ending with the API key.

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Now we'll take the response,
and every time data comes in,

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we'll append the data to
an empty string named body.

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Again, we'll use the .on method to do
this to handle event listening and

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watching in node.

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And we'll wait for
the end of the data using the end of it.

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When all the data has been sent,
we'll use JSON parse to parse the data and

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we'll use the console log
statement to print the data out.

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The response returned is
in the form of an array.

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Our definition is in the first array
item under a property name shortdef.

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This is what we'll print
out to the screen.

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We'll add some error handling to
watch out for errors on request,

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and catch parsing errors.

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Finally, we'll use argv
to access our arguments,

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and call forEach on the command
line arguments entered.

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We'll save.

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Go back to the terminal,
we'll try node app.js imperative,

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and we get the short definition
printed to the screen.

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We can try adding another word.

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And we get multiple definitions.

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Great work following along.

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You've created two command
line node applications.

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And we've only scratched
the surface of what node can do.

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With node, we can add open source code
from other developers to our projects,

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build applications that scale,
work with powerful libraries.

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And connect our front end
projects to databases.

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There's so much more to learn.