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Top Social APIs in 2019
Despite the recent privacy snafus from some social media platforms, developers are just as interested in creating social applications as they ever were. Here we take a look at some the social APIs in ProgrammableWeb's directory that get the most traffic, and what developers can do with them.
03-10-2019
Salesforce Opens Up Lightning Platform to World’s 7 Million+ Javascript Developers
Salesforce today announced its Lightning Web Components Framework; a technology that makes it possible for developers to use the Javascript programming language to customize browser-based web applications built on top of Salesforce’s core capabilities.
12-13-2018
How to Make a Heatmap with Mapbox GL JS
This tutorial will show you how to make a heatmap using Mapbox GL JS. Heatmaps can be used to display a large amounts of points in a visually engaging way for your audience. Here we refer to heatmaps as a visualization that is useful for showing the density of points over an area.
11-01-2018
How to Build a Store Locator Using Mapbox GL JS
This guide will walk you through how to create a store locator map using Mapbox GL JS. You'll be able to browse all of the locations from a sidebar and select a specific store to view more information. It takes a deep dive into JavaScript with Mapbox GL JS to build an interactive web map.
10-27-2018
How to Switch from Google Maps to Mapbox
For Google Maps users looking for an alternative, this guide will walk you through making the switch to Mapbox. You will be shown how to use Mapbox GL JS, a web mapping JavaScript library, to create a web map, add a marker, and attach a popup using similar methods as the Google Maps JavaScript API.
10-25-2018
How the OnSched API can Integrate Scheduling Into Your Chat-bot
Chatbot systems have greatly evolved the customer service space with rapid, personalized responses that can save businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars. OnSched provides a complete Consumer, and Setup, REST API to build online booking right into your chatbot's responses and workflows
09-19-2018
Magic Software Unveils a New Angular-Based Framework
Magic Software today released the latest version of its application development platform, Magic xpa 4.0, which features an Angular-based web application framework. Angular is an open-source JavaScript framework originally developed by Google and typically used to create single-page applications.
08-07-2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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