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Make Your Own Zillow, An Overview of the Zillow Tech Stack
Zillow is a popular real estate service that many people use when searching for homes and apartments. With many sites like Zillow, its API tech stack is drawing developers with ideas for leveraging such a site to build very creative services that increase the site's functionality.
08-12-2018
The Importance of Feedback Loops in API Design
If you're going to provide an API that is both desirable and stable, you need to ensure that your initial API release is functional, reliable, and usable. A death knell for APIs is releasing constant breaking changes or updates that require app developers to rework their app.
08-05-2018
How to Build a Basic Salesforce REST API Integration
You can learn to build an app using the Salesforce API that gives you a customer's name, email, and phone number. The API can help you to access leads information and understand client behavior. Web actions like click, watch, scroll, browse can determine how a sales team can follow up.
07-29-2018
How Web Authentication May Change the Future of Passwords
Recent investigations show how users can be authenticated via web without using passwords. It’s called WebAuthn or Web Authentication that uses a Web API in a browser. Clients can be verified with their phones, hardware keys, or trusted devices. In his article, Nick Steele explains the new standards
07-19-2018
How to Build a Serverless REST API with Node.js and MongoDB
When you work with a Serverless API, you focus on the application, not the servers. Scalability is flexible and availability automated. The original tutorial links to a crash course on Serverless with Node available here:
https://hackernoon.com/a-crash-course-on-serverless-with-node-js-632b37d58b44
07-15-2018
How to Use the OpenRates Currency API
The OpenRates API exchanges rate and converts currency in real time. Access the latest rates, historical rates, and base currency. You can learn how to access live data in this tutorial. Go back to the archives because the Rates API offers historical exchange rates beginning in 1999.
07-13-2018
Beginning Machine Learning: The "Hello World" of Tensor Flow
When Google opened its Tensor Flow machine learning (ML) tech, it also unleashed a tidal wave of possibilities, potentially triggering a tipping point as businesses begin to understand what ML can do for them. But for many ML remains an enigma. This tutorial is for those of us who are such mortals.
07-02-2018
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
How to Build a Serverless API with Go
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.
06-12-2018
How to Use GenStage and WebSockets to Optimize Consumption of Rate-Limited APIs
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
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
How to Build a GraphQL API with Rails in 20 minutes
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
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
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
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
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 Intercept API calls of Your iOS App
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
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