Advice generator app

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

Advice generator 'bug'

I didn't know why I couldn't generate a new advice after I click the button in less than a second.

It is due to the API documentation. I couldn't find exactly where it says but ChatGPT says that in older versions it used to say in the landing page of the API "Advice is cached for 2 seconds to prevent overloading the service."

How did I fix this?

The API has automatic caching in the browser (via Cache-Control headers) which means that if you request /advice again in less than a few seconds, it will return the same response (to save traffic).

So to force each request to be new, you can add a random query param by adding ?timestamp=${Date.now()} to "fool" the cache. So your API request should be like the following:

(`https://api.adviceslip.com/advice?timestamp=${Date.now()}`)