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How to Connect to an API with JavaScript API University
Tania Rascia teaches you how to use JavaScript to make API calls in a simple way, without a server, dependencies, or build tools. The project outcome will show a grid with movies produced by Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation film studio based in Tokyo Japan.
3 hours ago
How to Build a Serverless API with Go API University
This article should help you learn how to build an API without a server by using Go language. The author, Tom Maiaroto, built Aegis, an open source framework and deploy tool that uses a RESTful API, aiming to simplify, scalate, and speed up development.
5 days ago
How to Use GenStage and WebSockets to Optimize Consumption of Rate-Limited APIs API University
For certain kinds of tasks it can be tricky to get around API rate limits. A prime example would be implementing an incremental search with a third-party API. Ed Ellison over at the Mint Digital blog shows you how you can do it with a little help from GenStage and WebSockets.
05-20-2018
How to Discover Channel IDs with the YouTube Data API API University
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 3 of this tutorial, we continue to extend our code and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
04-18-2018
How to Discover Playlist IDs with the YouTube Data API API University
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 2 of this tutorial, we'll extend our code from part one and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
04-17-2018
How to Build a GraphQL API with Rails in 20 minutes API University
GraphQL is seen by some as the beginning of the end for RESTful APIs. GraphQL lets you get all the data you want in the way you want from an API while only ever calling one endpoint. But where to get started? Scott Domes over at MuseFind will take you from zero to hero in only twenty minutes.
04-01-2018
How to Work with Service Workers In Angular 5 API University
In 2015 Google announced Progressive Web Apps. At the heart of PWA is the use of Service Workers that act as a proxy server that is located between the web application in the browser and the network. This article looks at the functionality that Angular 5 has brought to work with Service Workers.
03-01-2018
Bing Search API Tutorial API University
Developers use the Bing SearchAPIs to add web search functionality to their applications. This functionality includes search across web pages as well as news items, videos, images and more. In this article we provide an introduction to the various Search APIs functionality and call them.
01-28-2018
How to Build a Shopify Application with Node.js and Express API University
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Shopify app from scratch with Node. You’ll learn how to request an access token from a shop and then make an API call. First, you’ll need to create a public HTTPS address for the purposes of authentication.
01-21-2018
How To Get YouTube Playlist Contents from the YouTube Data API API University
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In this tutorial, we'll review the YouTube Data API portal and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
01-19-2018
How To Hide API Keys in HTML5 Storage For Public Code Samples API University
We recently wrote about a post from CodePen.io that suggested a way of keeping API keys private when publicly sharing code samples. This time, we've gone back to that idea, given a try, and dogfooded it. We used JSBin to not only show how it works, we've embedded the "bin" in our tutorial.
01-17-2018
How to Intercept API calls of Your iOS App API University
API documentation, as we all know, is rarely comprehensive and almost never up-to-date. An alternative way to get to know an API is by intercepting API calls from a mobile app and examining how they work. Here Jan Schwoebel over at his blog will show you how you can easily do that for iOS apps.
01-15-2018
How to Build an Industrial Sensor API University
Inventory monitoring solutions make it easy for businesses to predict production demands and inventory spoilage remotely to increase efficiency and profits. This tutorial shows you how to leverage Twilio Functions to build an industrial sensor to monitor temperature, humidity and object weight.
01-12-2018
How To Use Google's Cloud Speech API to Transcribe a Large Audio File API University
In this, developer-blogger Alex Kras shows us how to overcome the 60 second audio file limitation of the free tier of Google's Cloud Speech API by taking a longer audio file, breaking it up into short chunks, and then cycling through those chunks to make a complete transcription.
01-04-2018
How Meltwater Used RSpec to Test Its NGINX API Gateway API University
An API Gateway is a design pattern often used in microservice architecture to provide a single access point to the underlying system. In this article, Mateusz Korszun from Meltwater explains why it's crucial to have meaningful tests for their API gateway. He also shows you the test setup their use.
12-18-2017
How to Implement a GraphQL API in Rails API University
GraphQL was created by Facebook to solve nagging issues with RESTful APIs like having to make multiple roundtrips to the server to fetch required data. Tech titans like GitHub and Shopify are already using it in production but many businesses have yet to take the leap.
12-09-2017
How to Use the Microsoft Bot Builder SDK to Build a Bot API University
In this Microsoft tutorial the contributors share the steps for building a bot with their SDK and testing it with the Framework Emulator. Initially, you will need to install Node.js, create a folder for your bot, form a command prompt, and run the npm command nodejs npm init.
11-11-2017
How to Build a Photo Gallery with the Cosmic JS API API University
Would you like to add a photo gallery to an application with the help of Vue.JS framework? It could be useful to showcase products, demonstrate what a service can do for the users, or serve as a call to action.
Vue.JS framework facilitates building user interfaces on the web.
11-05-2017
Integrating Google QPX With Mule API University
The Google QPX Express API allows developers to search for real flight availability and prices and use this data into their applications. This articles shows you how to integrate Mule with the Google QPX Express API, giving your app a flight availability and price search functionality.
11-01-2017
What is GraphQL and Why Does it Matter? API University
GraphQL, the Facebook-backed open source tech, is making waves across the internet right now. Some people claim it’s going to revolutionise API design and leave REST in the dust. But what is it exactly and why the fuss? James Governor over at Redmonk explains.
10-29-2017