Basic API kind of worked out and solved a bunch of things with alpine.js

public/js/code.js

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+
+class GetJson {
+  constructor(url) {
+    this.url = url;
+    this.items = [];
+  }
+
+  async theData() {
+    const resp = await fetch(this.url);
+    console.assert(resp.status == 200, "failed to get it");
+    this.items = await resp.json();
+    return this.items;
+  }
+}
+