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Java the Most Popular Language, Swift Showing Greatest Growth in ProgrammableWeb Directories
Which programming language is the most popular with developers? In the past we’ve looked to our directories to provide some insight into which language is most in demand. The recent growth of our SDK and Sample Source Code directories gives us an opportunity to take a fresh look at the data.
08-01-2018
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.
06-17-2018
Why Experts on Most Popular Javascript Frameworks Might Expect Less Pay
JavaScript has evolved into a massive ecosystem that covers nearly every aspect of web development, including both front end and back end. With dozens of JavaScript frameworks available, how do you choose the right one? This article looks at which frameworks currently dominate front-end development.
04-26-2018
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
Facebook Opens its Instant Games Platform to All Developers
Facebook this week announced it has opened its Instant Games platform to all developers. The platform, which had been in beta, allows developers to build HTML5-based games that can be played across Facebook directly within News Feeds and in Messenger conversations on desktop and mobile devices.
03-16-2018
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
W3C WebAssembly Working Group Publishes Three First Public Working Drafts
The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) WebAssembly Working Group has published three first public working drafts for the WebAssembly Core Specification, WebAssembly JavaScript Interface and WebAssembly Web API. WebAssembly offers developers a sway to run large, complex applications on the web.
02-21-2018
Google to Update Basemap Style for Google Maps APIs
Google yesterday announced that it will be updating the Google Maps APIs with a new basemap look and feel that is consistent with the look and feel that is now present across all Google products that incorporate Google Maps. The updated look and feel was implemented to improve user experience.
02-14-2018
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 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 Create a Quick and Dirty Example of The Proposed Standard for In-Band API Service Warnings API University
As a best practice, API providers often go to a lot of trouble to notify developers of upcoming disruptions or changes to their APIs. All of this happens out-of-band like in a ChangeLog or an email. But how about the idea of in-band notifications, especially when developers are impossible to reach?
12-07-2017
Why Do You Need to Learn Javascript?
Although JavaScript is not one of the hot and trendy programing languages, it’s one of the most widely used “granddaddy” technologies of the Internet. This article takes a look at why JavaScript dominates the modern internet and why the future of the language looks to be bright.
11-14-2017
Build a DIY Security Camera With the Twilio API and Raspberry Pi API University
The connected camera category has seen much growth since 2014. In this tutorial, we reproduce the basic functionality of a camera like the Nest Cam but with the unique property of being cellular connected. We will use a Twilio Programmable Wireless starter pack and Raspberry Pi to do this.
10-27-2017
readme.io's Build Looks To Greatly Simplify API Provisioning and Consumption (video)
Readme.io, a service that greatly simplifies the process of documenting technologies like APIs, is taking its popularity with API providers to the next level in a new offering called Build. Working off that tradition of simplicity, Build simplifies the design, provisioning and consumption of APIs.
09-29-2017
In Other API Economy News: Browser Updates from Apple, Mozilla and More
The week is nearly finished and we bring you some of the stories we couldn't cover with a look at what is going on in the world of APIs including some new developments on the browser front from Apple and Firefox as well as a great demonstration of what can be build using the ArcGis JavaScript SDK.
08-31-2017
Why ProgrammableWeb Refers to a Javascript API as an SDK
When designing data models and schemas with an eye towards enabling consistent user experiences, sometimes you have to go a little bit against the grain. If Javascript-specific tooling for consuming APIs had to be listed with other language specific tooling, then we would have to call it an SDK.
08-18-2017
How to Hide API Keys When Building Web Apps On CodePen API University
If you've ever used CodePen to prototype your own web apps or to closely inspect and fork someone else's code, then you know that one thing CodePen can't do is hide the API keys of any APIs that your app consumes in the process of doing whatever your app does. But now, there's a workaround.
08-14-2017
Why We Built Our New Developer UI on React Instead of Angular API University
When considering moving to or building on React, understanding your data and how you want it to live is something that must be figured out before moving forward. This article looks at how the Cloud Elements team made the decision to move on from the AngularJS frameowrk to React.
07-06-2017