🗓️ API of the Day: REST Countries

💡 Use case

Country metadata for forms, flags, and locale pickers — one GET, tiny JSON.

🛠️ Quick start

const u = 'https://restcountries.com/v3.1/name/nicaragua?fields=name,capital,flags';
const res = await fetch(u);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data[0]);

🎁 Daily takeaway

Use ?fields=name,capital,flags to strip payloads — skip downloading full country blobs.