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How to use local storage to persist the API response in a React.js application?

Sometimes the API response does not change and provides the same data every time. So to avoid unnecessary re-renders, you can save the response. In this piece, we will learn how to use local storage to persist API response.

4 Things You Need To Do For Calling GraphQL APIs

The process of consuming GraphQL APIs is different from other types of APIs, such as REST. Here are four things you need to specify while calling a GraphQL API.

How to get Longitude and Latitude from an Address?

Geocoding refers to the process of converting any given address into latitude and longitude coordinates. Let’s see how we can do this using an API from RapidAPI Hub.

How to publish a GraphQL API on RapidAPI Hub?

RapidAPI Hub is an API marketplace where API developers can add their APIs for monetization, putting it in front of over 3 million developers and consumers. This piece will guide you through the process of publishing a GraphQL API on RapidAPI Hub.

API Security – Broken Object Level Authorization Vulnerability

API vulnerabilities are a common thing that can break down your whole system if not treated. APIs may have vulnerabilities like broken authentication and authorization, insufficient logging and monitoring, lack of rate limiting, etc.

API Security – Injection Vulnerability

API Security – Broken Function Level Authorization Vulnerability

API Security – Insufficient Logging & Monitoring Vulnerability

How to consume GraphQL APIs in React using URQL?

Today, more and more applications are using GraphQL APIs. If you are using React, you can choose from multiple ways to consume a GraphQL API, and URQL is one of them.

10 Web APIs That Help With Your Web App Development

Web APIs are crucial for building highly interactive, performant, and user-friendly websites. In this piece, let’s look at 10 Web APIs that can help make your web app development easier, faster, and simpler.

What is Selection API?

This web API provides you with the user-selected node so you can perform actions on it. These actions can be anything from hiding the node, expanding it, manipulating it, or deleting it. In this piece, let’s look at the API and its interfaces.

How to use node-fetch to consume APIs on the Express server?

There is an npm package that can help you utilize the capabilities of fetch while writing Express code. It’s called node-fetch. In this piece, let’s learn how to use node-fetch on the Express server.

API Security – Lack of Resources & Rate Limiting Vulnerability

API vulnerabilities are a common thing that can break down your whole system if not treated. APIs may have vulnerabilities like broken authentication and authorization, improper assets management, lack of rate limiting, etc.

Interactive Guide To UI Events API

The UI Events API provides a way to handle these events and user interactions on a website.. In this piece, let’s take a look at what it is and how you can use it in your web apps.

10 Music APIs To Build Music Apps

In this piece, let’s take a look at the top 10 music APIs on the RapidAPI Hub that you can use in your projects.

API Security: Excessive Data Exposure Vulnerability

This vulnerability is highlighted by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). The API developer sends more data than required to the client. In this piece, let’s take a look at it and some prevention measures.

How to build your own API and publish it on RapidAPI Hub?

Have you ever thought of ways to earn a passive income? If you are a developer, there are several ways you can do it. In this piece, we will learn how to build a simple REST API in Node.js, deploy it on Heroku and then publish it on RapidAPI Hub to monetize it.

API Security – Improper Assets Management Vulnerability

API Security – Misconfiguration Vulnerability

API vulnerabilities are a common thing that can break down your whole system if not treated. APIs may have vulnerabilities like broken authentication, security misconfiguration, lack of rate limiting, etc.

API Security – Broken User Authentication Vulnerability

API vulnerabilities are a common thing that can break down your whole system if not treated. APIs may have vulnerabilities like broken authentication and authorization, lack of rate limiting, etc.

How to send data to the server via API?

There are different ways to send data along with the API request all the way to the server. You can either send it through the query string parameters or the request body. In this piece, let’s learn how you can do it in your web app.

How to make API calls in Java?

Since Java is one of the most popular languages out there, it is essential to learn how to make API calls in it so that when the need arises, you can get data from an external source in your Java app. In this piece, we will learn how to make API calls in Java.

A Deep Dive Into Your API Page of RapidAPI Hub

In this piece, let’s have a deeper look into RapidAPI Hub API page. We will understand the purpose of each section and when to use it.

A brief guide on API Mass Assignment Vulnerability

It is a severe API threat that arises when you save the request body as it is on the server instead of getting values from it one by one. In this piece, let’s take a quick look at it.

What is an API Marketplace?

API marketplaces are online platforms where APIs are the center of attention. They offer a medium where API developers can add their APIs for monetization, and other developers can easily find and consume these APIs.

Examples of APIs We Utilize in Our Daily Lives

Today, APIs have become fundamental to applications, and there are countless APIs available that provide access to all kinds of data. Whether we know it or not, we utilize APIs daily in our lives, and this guide will cover some of them.

REST vs SOAP APIs – A Beginner’s Friendly Guide

REST and SOAP APIs are two of the widely used APIs for communication between client and the server.

Five Basic Practices For REST API Security

REST APIs allow you to create, read, update and delete operations between a client and a server. There are a number of ways to secure REST APIs.

What is an API Endpoint?

An API provides different points of access for different resources. These are called API endpoints, which are URLs used to send requests and receive data from the API.

Best Practices for REST API Security

With the rise of APIs, API security demands more focus than ever. In API security, we manage privacy, access control, and attack prevention for APIs. Let’s discuss some practices that can help secure REST APIs.

What are API Injections and how to prevent them?

When the user sends malicious code (most of the time database query) with the API request, they execute an API injection. In this piece, let’s take a look at it and how you can prevent it from happening.

How to use APIs from RapidAPI Hub using JavaScript?

There are millions of APIs available on the internet that you can use for various purposes. This piece will help you to learn how to use any API from RapidAPI Hub in JavaScript.

How to add any API on RapidAPI Hub?

You can publish any public REST API on RapidAPI Hub. All you need is an account. In this piece, let’s look at what steps you need to take to publish an API under your name on RapidAPI Hub.

Introduction To Resize Observer API

This web API notifies the developers when there is a change in an element’s dimension. Let’s take a look at what this API is and how you can use it in your web applications.

Top Five Travel APIs

Travel APIs fetch data from different servers that house it, such as airlines, hotels, destinations, etc.

Top Five Real Estate (MLS) APIs

APIs are a fundamental part of the web, and there are countless APIs providing access to all kinds of data for web applications. This guide will cover the best real state and mortgage listing APIs.

Different Storage Web APIs

There are different web APIs that let you save data inside the browser and then later retrieve it. Each has its own purpose. In this piece, let’s shed some light on it.

What is an API Call?

APIs (Application Programming Interface) connect applications and let them interact with each other. API calls provide the medium for this interaction. Let’s see how they work.

Types of APIs

APIs are the backbone of software applications today. They connect applications of diverse architectures and help them communicate in order to perform CRUD operations. Let’s take a look at the different types of APIs.

What is CORS Proxy? Three APIs that Offer CORS Features

Have you ever requested data from some API but instead got an error like Cross-Origin Request Blocked? CORS Proxy allows us to bypass these errors and get the data we need.

What is WebXR Device API?

The XR in the WebXR Device API stands for Cross Reality which is the term for VR and AR when referred to collectively. This web API is designed to help you bring AR and VR to the web. Let’s briefly look at it and some of its use cases.

Introduction to Visual Viewport API

The Visual Viewport API allows to have some element present at all times on the visual viewport, regardless of where the element is present. In this piece, let’s take a look at it.

Interactive Guide To Image Capture API

This web API provides you access to the device’s camera so you can take a picture. You can then download the image on the computer. In this piece, let’s take a look at how you can use this API in your project.

How to build a Planet App using Planets API?

There are several planets in the known universe. Each of them has specific properties and environments and is different from one another. Instead of looking at these properties on the internet, we can build a small web app for them. So in this piece, let’s build a small planet app.

Axios vs. Fetch: What to use for Making HTTP Requests?

Getting data from APIs is a fundamental operation of any web application. Both Fetch and Axios are widely used for making HTTP requests to APIs. Let’s see how they differ and how we can use them.

Interactive Guide to Server-Side Rendering (SSR) for Fetching APIs in Next.js

Next.js extends React by offering the developers multiple ways of data fetching, and Server Side Rendering (SSR) is one of them. Let’s see how we can fetch data from APIs using SSR.

What is API Architecture?

The process of developing a software interface that exposes backend data and application functionality in new applications is called API architecture.

What is API Management? – A Beginner’s Friendly Guide

APIs are becoming essential across various industries and without proper API management, they can do more harm than good. RapidAPI offers these API management tools.

A Deep Dive Into Built-in Next.js REST API

Next.js lets you create API routes right inside the application as a serverless function. No need to set up a Node.js server. Just create a JavaScript file inside the pages/api directory. In this guide, let’s take a deep look at the ins and outs of this built-in REST API.

What is Web Share API?

The Web Share API provides a simple and easy way to access the operating system’s sharing capabilities to share content across installed applications. In this piece, let’s look at this API and how you can use it in your websites.

How to handle API Errors Using Axios?

In the course of fetching APIs, if the API request doesn’t go as planned, we may encounter errors. Let’s see how to manage these errors using Axios.

Ten Interesting Web App Ideas with APIs for your Side Projects

APIs are a fundamental part of the web, and there are countless APIs providing access to all kinds of data for web applications. This guide will cover some interesting Web projects for your portfolio that use APIs, and every project includes a demo and a Learn how to build.

Introduction To Windows Control Overlay API

This web API is designed to hide the default title bar in a PWA so you can customize the area according to your choice. This helps to provide a more of an app-like feel than software running inside a window. Let’s take a look at this API in this piece.

Interactive Guide to Geolocation API

This web API returns the geographical latitudes and longitudes and the accuracy to which it is correct. It utilizes the device’s GPS chip to get location. In this piece, let’s take a look at what it is and how you can use it in your websites.

How to handle API Errors Using Response Helpers in Next.js?

In the course of Fetching APIs in Next.js, we may encounter an error if the API request doesn’t go as planned. Let’s see how to manage these errors using Next’s Response Helpers.

How to build a Text Case App using ConvertText API?

If you are a programmer, you would know how many letter cases exist that you can use to declare your variables. There is the camel case, pascal case, kebab case, etc. In this piece, let’s build an application to convert text into different cases.

Top Five Entertainment APIs?

Entertainment APIs cover a wide variety of topics. With the help of entertainment APIs, content creation and distribution have improved a lot. Let’s look at some top-five entertainment APIs at RapidAPI Hub.

What is Depth Limiting in APIs?

Rate limiting is a way to limit the requests coming to an API. GraphQL APIs have another way of restricting requests called depth limiting. This method resists queries based on their depth.

Interactive Guide to Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) for Fetching APIs in Next.js

Next.js extends React by offering the developers multiple ways of data fetching, and Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is one of them. Let’s see how we can fetch data from APIs using ISR.

Top APIs for Currency Conversion

The public APIs are usually available on the internet for you to use. But with RapidAPI Hub, you get all of them in a single place. Let’s look at the top five APIs on RapidAPI Hub for currency conversion.

Ten Awesome Free APIs For Your Projects

APIs are a fundamental part of the web, and there are countless APIs providing access to all kinds of data for web applications.. This guide will cover some awesome Free APIs for your projects.

How to Build a Random Color Palette Generator App in Next.js using an API?

Random color palettes are a great source of inspiration if you are looking for colors for your projects. This guide will demonstrate how to build a random color palettes application using Next.js and an API.

What are External APIs?

APIs allow the interaction of one application with the other efficiently and are widely used in web applications. This guide will help you know about External APIs.

Introduction To Web Speech API

The Web Speech API lets you perform two actions. The first is text-to-speech and the second is speech recognition. In this piece, let’s take a look at what it is and how you can use it.

What is WebCodecs API?

WebCodecs is a powerful web API that lets developers access the individual frames of a video. It also helps developers to encode and decode audio and video files. In this piece, let’s take a look at this API.

What is GraphQL? – A Beginner’s Friendly Guide

There are a couple of things that make GraphQL unique. This guide will help beginners understand about GraphQL.

Introduction To Page Visibility API

Page Visibility API is designed to watch for the page visibility state of a web application so that the app can execute a piece of code when the state changes. Let’s take a look at this API in this piece.

Interactive Guide to Credentials Management API

The API lets you save user credentials in your internet browsers. It also helps you retrieve credentials, public keys, and federated credentials for a specific website. Let’s take a look at what it is and how you can use it in your website.

How to call APIs in Next.js?

Next.js extends the capabilities of React.js by providing the developers features like server-side rendering, static site generation, incremental static generation, a working REST API, file-system-based routing, dynamic routing, etc. Let’s take a look at how you can call APIs in it.

How to Build a Title Case App Using Title Case Converter API?

Sometimes it becomes confusing which letter to uppercase in a title, and we often end up uppercasing the wrong words. To take care of it, we can use an API from RapidAPI Hub and build a small application using it. So let’s do just that in this piece.

What is Background Task API?

Background Task API lets you schedule tasks that executes when your site is idle. Let’s take a look at this API and how you can use it.

How To Set Request Headers Using Axios?

HTTP headers allow clients and servers to talk to each other and pass extra bits of information or instructions. Request headers are sent from the client to the server. Let’s see how to set them using Axios.

What Are HTTP Interceptors and How To Set Them Using Axios?

HTTP Interceptors allow us to check or modify all the incoming or outgoing HTTP requests in our application. We can use them if we want to apply something like an authorization header to all the requests. Let’s see how to set HTTP interceptors for API requests using Axios.

Five APIs To Get Random Data For Your Project Demos

When building projects, we often require some random demo data to test our applications. This guide will cover some APIs we can use for getting random demo data.

How to fetch data from APIs using React Query?

React Query is a library that provides a set of React hooks for data fetching. It makes data fetching easier with features like caching, re-fetching, revalidation, etc. This guide will demonstrate how to use it.

How to Build a Book Search App in Next.js using an API?

In this guide, we will create a book search application with React and Next.js. The application will fetch the author, description, cover image, links, and more of a given book using a books API from RapidAPI Hub.

Interactive Guide to Screen Wake Lock API

The Screen Wake Lock API ensures that your computer display does not turn off after some time of inactivity. Let’s take a look at what this API is and how you can use it in your web applications.

What is Content Index API?

Content Index API maintains an index of all the available offline content. The developer adds its web application’s URL or metadata of the offline-capable pages to a local index that is maintained by the browser. In this piece, let’s take a brief look at this API.

Introduction to Contact Picker API

Contact Picker API lets you open up a piece of UI from which the user can select the contact they wish to import into the website. In this piece, let’s take a quick look at this API.

How to consume APIs using GOT in Node.js?

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on top of Chrome’s V8 engine. In layman’s terms, you can now run JavaScript in your terminal. In this piece, we will learn how to use the got node package to consume APIs in Node.js.

How to build a BMI Calculator App using BMI Calculator API?

Health is important, especially when your job involves you sitting in front of a computer all day. Hence, you should know your Body Mass Index (BMI) to ensure you are in good condition. Let’s take a look at how you can build such app from scratch using an API from RapidAPI Hub.

HTTP Cookies, Their Purpose, And Their Types

HTTP Cookies play a fundamental role on the Web. They are small pieces of data that are sent by a server and stored in the client’s device. In this piece, let’s look at their types and why they are important.

How to Define GraphQL Queries and Mutations?

GraphQL schema is the blueprint of a GraphQl API and describes the form of the data returned by the API. Let’s see how to define queries and mutations in the GraphQL schema.

How to create an API Documentation Site using Nextra

Documentation allows users to understand and connect with your API smoothly, but it is only effective when users can easily access your documentation. Let’s see how we can create a separate site for API documentation using Nextra in no time.

Best Practices for GraphQL API Security

With the rise of APIs, API security demands more focus than ever. GraphQL APIs are a tad different from conventional REST APIs, so let’s discuss some practices specifically for GraphQL APIs.

Interactive Guide to GraphQL Unions and Interfaces

GraphQL queries enable declarative data fetching but may become complicated when you want to interact with many fields of different types. GraphQL Unions and Interfaces are abstract types that allow a field to have multiple object types. They make it easier to use the API and handle different scenarios.

Interactive Explanation of API Idempotency

Idempotency in API requests is often a confusing concept. Idempotent requests allow you to make multiple requests to the same endpoint and get the same response. This guide will help you understand the basics of idempotency.

How to Build an NFT Explorer App in Next.js using an API?

There are many APIs on RapidAPI Hub that make Web 3.0 more accessible. NFTs are also one of the Web 3.0 items. Let’s use an API to build an NFT explorer application in Next.js.

How to Manage API Calls in React Applications?

React is the most popular front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces. This guide will describe the different ways you can use to manage API calls in your React applications.

What is Credential Management API?

Credential Management API lets a website stores the client’s username and password in the browser. Once the credentials are saved, you can retrieve them later. Let’s briefly look at this API in this piece.

How to build a REST API in PHP?

PHP is a server-side language that is used to write backend code. In this piece, let’s take a look at how you can build a fully working REST API in PHP.

How to build a Country Info App using Country Info API?

There are thousands of APIs available on RapidAPI Hub. In this piece, let’s use an API from RapidAPI Hub to build an app that will show some basic information related to a country.

Interactive Guide to Battery Status API

It is another web API designed to help developers access the power information of their user’s devices. Let’s take a deep look at what this API is and how you can use it in your web applications.

Introduction to Barcode Detection API

This API lets you decode different kinds of barcodes. It takes an image, performs operations on it, and produces a result accordingly. Let’s take a look at how what this API is and how you can use it.

How to fetch data from APIs using SWR Hooks in React?

SWR is a lightweight hooks library for data fetching. It allows you to utilize APIs in your React applications with features like built-in caching, TypeScript support, and revalidation. This guide will demonstrate how to use them.

Best Practices for Securing API Keys

API keys are encrypted strings that allow APIs to authenticate applications. This guide will highlight some good practices of using API keys keeping security in mind.

GraphQL Schema and its Types

GraphQL schema is the blueprint of a GraphQl API and describes the form of the data returned by the API. Let’s take a look at its type system with examples.

How to Consume GraphQL APIs in Vue?

Vue.js is built on top of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and provides a declarative and component-based programming model. In this piece, we will look at how you can consume GraphQL APIs in Vue.js applications.

What is Screen Wake Lock API?

This API prevents the screen from turning off. The user device’s screen does not dim or lock itself if the cursor hasn’t moved for a certain period. Let’s take a look at it and see how it works.

Interactive Guide to Console API

The Console API is the go-to debugging tool of millions of developers when working with JavaScript. You access it using the console interface. Let’s take a look at what it is and how you can properly use it.

How to consume APIs in Ruby?

Ruby is a dynamically typed language where everything is an object. It is being used by companies like Twitter, GitHub, Shopify, etc. In this piece, we will learn how to consume APIs from RapidAPI Hub in Ruby.

How to build a Weather News App using Weather News API?

We often want to have a single place to find every kind of news, for instance, a site where all the information related to games is listed or a site where weather-related news is present. In this piece, let’s build a small app that will list all the weather API at one place.

What is Battery Status API?

It is another web API designed to help developers access the power information of their user’s devices. Let’s take a look at it and see how it works.

How to Call APIs in Angular?

APIs are a fundamental part of the web, and there are many awesome APIs waiting to be utilized. This guide will demonstrate how you can consume APIs in an Angular application.

What is Web Authentication API?

This web API, also known as WebAuthn, uses asymmetric cryptography, widely known as public-key cryptography. Let’s briefly look at some of its benefits and use cases.

Introduction To Vibration API

The API lets you access the vibration mechanism of the supported device. You can use this API to vibrate the host device or execute a vibrational pattern. Let’s briefly look at what it is and how you can use it.

How to make API calls in PHP on the server?

PHP is a server-side language adopted by the likes of Meta for their product “Facebook”. In this piece, we will look at how you can make API calls using PHP on server.

How to build a Sentence Generator App using Linguatools Sentence Generating API?

In this piece, let’s build a sentence generator app that will provide you with a complete sentence by first taking a few words from you.

How to Build a Text Summarizer App in Next.js using an API?

Sometimes, too long text can cause information overload, and we may want to summarize it into a concise, easy-to-digest piece. Using a Text Summarization API, let’s build an application around this use case in Next.js.

How to Build a Hashtag Generator App in Next.js using an API?

The Hashtagy API on RapidAPI Hub provides the best performing hashtags for a given keyword. Let’s build a Hashtag Generator application in Next.js using this API.

Introduction To Screen Capture API

You can use Screen Capture API to add a recording feature to your website. The client can record their screen or the portion of their screen as a media stream. Let’s briefly look at this API in this piece.

How to make API calls in Vue?

Vue.js is built on top of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and provides a declarative and component-based programming model. In this piece, we will look at how you can make API calls using Vue.js.

What is HTML Sanitizer API?

HTML Sanitizer API provide developers with different methods to handle user-controlled HTML, preventing direct script execution upon injection. In this piece, let’s briefly look at it.

Interactive Guide to Clipboard API

Clipboard API is a simple API that provides access to the operating system’s clipboard. You can paste content on it and even read from it. In this piece, let’s take a look at what it is and how you can use it in your websites.

How to build an Anime Suggestion App Using Anime Recommender API?

We often want to watch animes similar to what we have already watched. It can become a hassle looking up these animes on the internet. Fortunately, we can build an app for it. Let’s take a look at how you can build such app from scratch using an API from RapidAPI Hub.

How to Get a Visitor’s IP and Location Using an API?

Many applications like weather, maps, networking, and social media apps need to get their visitors’ IP addresses and location data to function. These applications rely on IP and Geolocation APIs to do so, and this guide will show how you can use them in your projects.

Interactive Guide to the Best Practices for API Parameters

Parameters carry the information required by the API to process requests. Both API designers and consumers need to know the dos and don’ts of the API request parameters. This guide will highlight some best practices that can help in this regard.

Five More APIs That Add Security Capabilities To Your Application

API is a channel that applications utilize to talk with each other. You put some information at one end, the API takes that information and gets back with a result. This guide will focus on those APIs that provide security-related features.

How to Build a Spam Checker App in Next.js using an API?

The Spam Check API on RapidAPI Hub allows us to check any text content for spam. You can use it before sending emails to make sure they dont land in the spam folder. In this guide, we will build a Spam Checker application in Next.js using this API.

How to build a Custom News App using Web Search API?

The world is changing every day, and it is hard to keep up with all the news. Instead of looking up on the internet, we can build a small app to get the top news in one place. In this piece, I will show you how you can build such application from scratch.

Interactive Guide to GraphQL Fragments

GraphQL queries enable declarative data fetching but may become complicated when you want to interact with many fields. GraphQL fragments solve this problem by allowing you to reuse parts of a query. This interactive guide will explain how they work.

Ten More Interesting Web App Ideas That Use APIs

Interactive guide to API Request Parameters

Parameters carry the information required by the API to process requests. There are different kinds of API parameters, and this guide will explain their differences.

Five APIs That Add Security Capabilities To Your Application

API is a channel that applications utilize to talk with each other. You put some information at one end, the API takes that information and gets back with a result. In this guide, we will focus on those APIs that provide security related features.

How to Schedule API Calls using setTimeout()?

During web development, we often need to schedule API requests and send them after a specified period of time. This guide will describe how we schedule API calls using the JavaScript setTimeout() mehtod.

Interactive Guide To Navigation Timing API

TThis API helps you analyze your site’s performance by providing you with a set of methods to accurately identify the performance problems with your site’s code or resources. Let’s look at what this API is and how you can use it in your websites.

What is Intersection Observer API?

The Intersection Observer API provides you a DOM element’s visibility access relative to another element. Let’s briefly look at the API and some of its use cases.

What is File System Access API?

The API provides you with an interface to read, write, and save files locally. Let’s take a look at it and how it works in this piece.

How to build a REST API in Flask?

Flask is a python micro-framework that is often used to write backend architecture. Let’s take a look at how you can build a REST API using Flask.

How to make multiple API requests in parallel?

If a function makes multiple API requests, you can send these API requests concurrently instead of sending them one by one. This guide will demonstrate how you can make parallel API requests.

How to Call APIs in Svelte using Axios?

There are different ways you can use to call APIs in Svelte. This guide will demonstrate how to use Axios to consume APIs in a Svelte application.

How to send API requests with intervals using setInterval()?

During web development, we often need to send repeated API requests with intervals. It can be done to fetch updated data, show changes without having to reload, etc. This guide will describe how we can call APIs with intervals,

Ten Interesting Web App Ideas That Use APIs

What is Picture-in-Picture API?

This API lets you toggle a video on top of the web pages. This helps with multitasking as the user can consume media and, at the same time, work on other sites. In this piece, we will briefly look at it and see how to use it.

Introduction To Permissions API

This web API lets you access the permission status of different APIs in a generalized manner. Using it, you can see whether a particular API has been granted permission or not. In this piece, we will briefly look at it and see how to use it.

Interactive Guide to History API

This API lets you go back and forth between web pages that are in your session history. In this piece, let’s take a look at what it is and how you can use it in your websites.

How to build a REST API using Node.js and Express.js in 5 minutes

For retrieving, deleting, creating or updating existing data, we need a communication channel to move the data around. That’s where a REST API comes in. In this piece, we are going to build a REST API using Node.js and Express.js.

How to build a Random User Generator App using Random User API?

When you are developing an application, you have to implement user authentication. Instead of creating all the data yourself, you can build a small app that can generate fake user data. So let’s do just this in this article.

How to Cache GraphQL APIs on the Client-side?

Client-side caching helps reduce unnecessary and redundant requests to the APIs. This guide will demonstrate how to cache a GraphQL API in React using Apollo.

How to use the Fetch API with async/await

Fetch API is a Web API that uses promises to make network requests over the HTTP/1.1 protocol. This guide will demonstrate how to handle these promises through async/await.

How to Call APIs in Go?

APIs are a fundamental part of the web, and there are many awesome APIs waiting to be utilized. This guide will demonstrate how you can consume APIs in the Go programming language.

How to Build a Lyrics App in Next.js using an API?

There are a lot of APIs on RapidAPI Hub that provide lyrics to the tracks you are looking for. You can use them for a fun personal project or a music application. This guide will demonstrate how to build a Next.js application using one of these APIs.

Interactive Guide to XMLHttpRequest API

XMLHttpRequest a Web API that lets you communicate with the server via a REST API endpoint to fetch data and then show it to the user without refreshing the page. Let’s take a look at what this API is and how you can use it in your web applications.

How to make API calls in Python?

Python is one of today’s most widely used programming languages with thousands of applications. In this piece, we will look at how you can make API calls using Python.

How to handle CORS in Flask?

Flask is a Python Framework that you can use to write backend code. In this piece, we will talk about how to handle CORS in Flask.

How to handle CORS in Express?

With Express.js, you can use JavaScript on the server. In this piece, we will look at how you can handle CORS in and Express backend.

How to build a Topic Keyword Generator App using Topic Tagging API?

When you have to publish a blog, you have to enter keywords and topics to rank your article on Google and other search engines. In this piece, let’s build a small app that will suggest us topics and keywords for our article.

Introduction to GraphQL Subscriptions

GraphQL Subscriptions provide a way to fetch data from the server in real-time. A subscription is a continuously living request that pushes data to the client whenever a specific event happens.

What is WebGL API?

A web API called WebGL lets you render 2D and 3D graphics on the screen. In this piece, let’s briefly look at WebGL and some of its benefits and use cases.

Interactive Guide to URL Pattern API

It is a web API for defining the syntax used to create URL pattern matchers. Let’s take a look at what this API is and how you can use it in your web applications.

How to build a Stock App using RealStonks API?

If you sell and buy stock often, you would need to stay up-to-date with the market trends. Instead of looking up different stock data on the internet, we can build an application for it. So let’s do just this in this piece.

How to build a Grammar Check App using GrammarBot API?

You often have to write essays, articles, reports. Whether you are a student or a professional, it is a good idea to check your pieces via some application. So today, we will build a grammar checker app that will check our content for grammar errors.

How to Consume GraphQL APIs in Svelte?

Svelte is one of the fastest-growing JavaScript frameworks and has captured the attention of many developers. If you want to build a Svelte application, this guide will demonstrate how to consume GraphQL APIs.

Automate API Testing with RapidAPI Testing GitHub Action

API development and testing go side by side. The RapidAPI GitHub Action allows you to automate API testing, ensuring high test coverage and easy maintenance.

How to Call APIs in Svelte?

Svelte is an open-source compiler that runs at build time and generates minimal and optimized JavaScript code. It competes with other JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue. This guide will demonstrate how you can consume APIs in a Svelte application.

How to build a Screenshot App using an API?

Screenshot APIs from RapidAPI Hub allow you to take automated, high quality and full page screenshots of a target website. This guide will demonstrate how to create our own Screenshot App using an API.

Best Practices of API Authentication

With the rise of APIs, API security demands more focus than ever. Authentication determines the client’s identity who is sending the request and ensures that your API is properly secured. This guide will highlight some good practices of API Authentication.

Best Practices for Creating Good API Errors

What happens when a request to your API doesn’t go as planned? An error response is displayed, and it is the only way for the developers to diagnose what went wrong. This guide will highlight some good practices you can apply during API error handling.

Interactive Guide to Encoding API

This web API allows you to encode and decode string values. In this piece, let’s take a look at what Encoding API is and how you can use it in your web apps.

What is CSS Object Model?

Like the Document Object Model that manipulates the viewport, the CSS Object Model lets you control the CSS from JavaScript. In this piece, let’s briefly look at CSS Object Model API.

Introduction to Channel Messaging API

This API forms a two-way channel and lets you pass messages between different browser contexts. In this piece, let’s briefly look at this API and how it works.

How to build a Word Usage App using WordsAPI?

You often find yourself on a search engine if you are not a native English and want to understand how you can use a word in a sentence. In this piece, let’s build an app that will show us how to use a certain word.

How to build a Coordinate Distance Calculator App using Distance Calculator API?

In this piece, let’s build an app together that will show us the distance between two geographical coordinatesz.

What is CSS Font Loading API?

With CSS font loading API, we can load the fonts using JavaScript. Let’s briefly look at what it is and how you can use it in your applications.

How to build an Post Office Info App Using Pin Codes – India API?

If you are from India, you would want to know all the post offices around you if you want to visit one. In this piece, we will build a small web application for this using an API from RapidAPI Hub.

Interactive Guide To Notifications API

If a web app needs to send notifications to the user at the system level, the Notifications API is used. The API uses the browser to display notifications outside the page.

How to build a Real Estate App using Realty API?

Realty API from RapidAPI Hub offers an extensive set of details about the real estate properties in the USA. This guide will demonstrate how to create our own Real Estate App using the API.

API Schemas and their Types

An API Schema defines how the data is structured in the API implementation. This information is useful for the developers to interact with an API and its endpoints.

General Techniques of API Caching

APIs can cache their response, and this cache can be used to fetch the same response later. When implemented correctly, API caching offers a great level of efficiency.

How to consume GraphQL APIs in React using Apollo

Today, more and more applications are using GraphQL APIs. If you are using React, you can choose from multiple ways to consume a GraphQL API, and Apollo is one of them.

Interactive Guide To MediaQueryList API

MediaQueryList API lets you define a viewport size below which it fires the function that is provided to it. In this piece, let’s take a look at what it is and how you can use in your websites.

How to build a US Zip Code Info App using US Zip Code Information API?

You can get a lot of information from an area’s zip code. Instead of looking it up on the Internet, we can build an app for it using an API from RapidAPI Hub. In this piece, let’s do just this and build an app to get information associated with a zipcode.

What is Broadcast Channel API and why you should care about it?

You use this API when you need to communicate across tabs/windows of the same origin. Let’s take a look at what it is, how you can use it and why you should care about it.

What is CSS Painting API?

CSS Painting API, also known as the CSS Custom Paint or Houdini’s paint worklet, allows you to paint an image whenever a CSS property expects an image. Let’s briefly look at it in this piece.

Interactive Guide To Cookie API

A cookie is data from a specific website stored on the client’s computer while they are browsing the Internet. In this piece, let’s take a look at what cookie API is and how you can use it in your web applications.

How to build a UK Restaurant App using Wyre Data API?

If you are from the United Kingdom, you would want to know the restaurants in your district. In this piece, we are building a small web app just for this using an API from RapidAPI Hub.

How to build a Food Nutrient App using Calorie Ninja API?

You often need to find out what kind of nutrients a particular food contains. In this piece, we are building a small web app just for this using an API from RapidAPI Hub.

What is Background Fetch API?

The background fetch API lets you communicate with the browser to perform some fetches in the background even if the user closes the tab. In this piece, lets briefly look at it.

How to use an API in Google Sheets?

Here is how you can supercharge your Google Sheets by calling APIs and embedding their responses within the sheets.

How to build a Carbon Footprint App using Next.js and the CarbonFootprint API?

In this guide, we will build a Carbon Footprint App that will use an API from RapidAPI Hub to calculate the carbon footprint of travel.

How to call APIs using TypeScript?

TypeScript is the superset of JavaScript that offers type-checking to avoid issues related to types. This guide describes how to make type-safe calls to APIs using TypeScript.

Interactive Guide To Cache API

The Cache API offers an interface for storing and retrievng network requests and responses.

Interactive Guide To HTML Drag and Drop API

The Drag and Drop API lets you drag an element and drop it in a particular zone. In this piece, I have explained the working of drag and drop API and how you can use it to build apps.

How to build a Random Facts App using Random Facts API?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build a small random facts application in this piece using an API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

How to build a Game News App using Gaming News API?

In this piece, I am going to teach you how to build a small application that will display only game related news to the user.

What is Beacon API?

Beacon API does not expect a response from the server. It sends data to the server when the site is unloading from the browser. Let’s take a deeper look into the Beacon API in this piece.

Perform Sentiment Analysis on Tweets using Pipedream and RapidAPI

Pipedream is a serverless platform to connect APIs, and its combination with RapidAPI offers endless opportunities.

How to build a Food Recipe App using Next.js and Spoonacular API?

The Spoonacular API on RapidAPI Hub allows users to access thousands of recipes and food-related information. This guide will demonstrate how you can build an app using this API.

Interactive Guide To Canvas API

Browsers give us several ways to display graphics, like styling the elements. But when it comes to drawing graphics such as two lines, the Canvas API is used, which allows you to draw graphics using JavaScript programmatically.

Best Practices for Naming API Endpoints

How you name the API endpoints plays a major role because developers interact with your APIs through these endpoints. This guide will point some useful practices you can apply while naming API endpoints.

How to Document your API using RapidAPI Hub?

Well constructed documentation ensures a good developer experience, which is critical for increasing the adoption of your API. RapidAPI Hub provides features that help you a lot during documentation. Read this guide to learn more about them.

How to Improve the Developer Experience of your API?

Learn why Developer Experience plays a significant role in API growth and what strategies you can employ to improve it.

How to build a Streaming Availability App using Next.js?

The content offered by streaming services varies from region to region. Sometimes it gets frustrating when the content you are looking for is not available at your streaming platform. Let’s build an app that will show the availability of movies or TV shows across streaming services.

Asynchronous vs Synchronous APIs

Asynchronous APIs provide a new solution to data fetching which is different from traditional Synchronous APIs.

Best Practices for Creating API Documentation

Documentation allows developers to connect with your API easily and ensures a good developer experience. Here are some best practices you can apply while documenting APIs.

Introduction To Web Workers API

This API makes sure that your page is not unresponsive when a script is running in the background. In this piece, let’s briefly look at web workers and some of its types.

Introduction To Video And Audio APIs

In this piece, let’s take a look at the different video and audio APIs that HTML provides you.

Interactive Guide To URL API

The URL API is a component of the URL standard and the API that accesses and manipulates URLs. In this piece, we are going to look at how you can use URL API in your web applications.

How to build a Horoscope App using Aztro API?

If you are interested in learning about their horoscope, you can either search on the internet or build your own application. The latter sounds more fun. In this piece, I am going to show you how you can do just this.

How to build a Car Data app using Car Data API?

If you were a car enthusiast like me, you would have often found yourself searching for different cars, their make, model, etc. Instead of searching for a particular car, we can build an application to see all the car details. Let’s do just this in this piece.

How to build a Domain App using a WHOIS API and Next.js?

In this guide, we will be building a web application that will allow users to look up web domains and check their availability using an API from RapidAPI Hub.

How to display loading state during API Calls in React?

Loading states ensure a better user experience during data fetching from APIs.

Types of Rest API Parameters

There are several types of parameters found in REST APIs. While building a REST API, you need to decide which parameter suits the endpoint.

API Documentation and its Must-Haves

Documentation allows users to understand and connect with your API smoothly, ensuring a good developer experience. Here are some elements that must be covered in an API’s documentation.

How to use Axios to make API requests?

There are a few ways you can request a REST API endpoint. You can use the `fetch` API or use external packages. Let’s take a look at how to use axios to make API requests.

Introduction To JavaScript APIs For WebExtensions

A browser extension is often a combination of background scripts and content scripts. You use different JavaScript APIs in both these files. Let’s take a look at JavaScript APIs and some of its example in this piece.

Interactive Guide To IndexedDB API

It is a Web API that provides you with a non-relational database right inside your browser. In this piece, we are going to look at IndexedDB API and how you can use it in your applications.

How to build a Quote App using Famous Quotes API?

In this piece, let’s build a quotation application that will provide you with different quotes to make you stay motivated.

How to build a Joke App using JokeAPI?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build a joke application that will show different jokes to the user.

Interactive Guide To Web Storage API

It is a Web API that provides you with different functions to store key/value pairs in your browser. Let’s take a deeper look at it. In this piece, let’s take a look at how you can use web storage API in your websites.

Top APIs For Weather Forecast

When we learn new technology, we often build a small app, generally a weather application using a weather API. Let’s take a look at some top weather APIs at RapidAPI Hub.

Top APIs For Text Analysis and Extraction

There are a lot of text APIs available on the internet. Some are used for text extraction; others are used for text analysis. Let’s take a look at some of the most widely used ones.

How to build a Public Holiday App using Public Holiday API?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build a public holiday application using an API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

How to build a Phone Number Validation App using Phone Validate API?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build a small phone number validation app using an API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

How to build a Hotel App using Hotels API and Next.js?

The Hotels API on RapidAPI Hub provides information about rooms, facilities and prices from many hotels around the world. Let’s use this API to build a Hotel application.

Top Cryptocurrency APIs for Trading, Exchange and Market Information

Check out these amazing Cryptocurrency APIs you can use in your next application.

How to build a Trademark App using Next.js and USPTO Trademark API?

Let’s see how to build a trademark search app using an API from RapidAPI Hub.

Top APIs for getting the Latest Global News

If you are creating a news-related application, or want to display news in your existing app, then these are the best news APIs for you.

Top APIs for Web Scraping

Web Scraping is an automated way of extracting data from a website. These are the best APIs you can use for Web Scraping.

How to Create a Mock API in 5 Minutes?

A mock API lets you imitate a real API by emulating its responses and behaviors. This guide will help you set up your first mock API in no time.

Interactive Guide To Web Animation API

A Web API that provides you the options to create animations and manipulate them using plain JavaScript with no external library is the Web Animation API. In this piece, let’s take a look at it and how you can use it in your websites.

Best Practices for Designing APIs

When designing an API and for using it, there are certain best practices that developers follow. In this piece, let’s take a look at some of the best practices of designing a APIs.

What is the difference between an API and a Web Service?

APIs and web services are often confused with each other. Although they might perform many of the same functions, they are not altogether similar. In this piece, we are going to look at the differences between these two.

How to build a COVID-19 Vaccine Stats App using Covid 19 World Vaccination Data API?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build an application that will provide the COVID-19 vaccine statistics across different countries.

How to build an Anime Search Application using Jikan API?

Everyone these days loves animes and watches them a lot. If you are one of them, you would want to have a platform to search for them quickly. Let’s take a look at how you can build such platform from scratch.

What is Service Mesh and How Does it Differ API Gateways?

Let’s see how a Service Mesh is different from an API Gateway and which one you should prefer.

Pricing Strategies for Monetizing your API

This guide will help you set a pricing strategy for your API.

Introduction to API-First Approach

In API-First approach, APIs become the core of a product.

How to implement Rate Limiting to your API on RapidAPI Hub?

Rate Limiting is the process through which you limit the number of requests coming to your API in a certain amount of time. This guide will show how RapidAPI Hub allows you to implement rate limits quickly.

How to fetch data from APIs using React Hooks?

React Hooks are the way to go if you want to utilize an API in your React application. This guide will demonstrate how to use them for calling APIs in React.

What are Web Services?

Web servuce is a medium, a piece of software that allows communication between client and server on the World Wide Web. Let’s take a look at some of the characteristics of web services in this piece.

Interactive Guide To Learn Browser API

These APIs come with your web browser, so developers can use them to build extensions. Let’s take a look at some of the browser APIs in this interactive guide.

Difference between API and SDK

In this piece, let’s take a look at what are the differences between APIs and SDKs.

How to build a Language Detection App using Next.js and Microsoft Translator Text API?

In this piece, let’s take a look at how you can build a language detection app using an API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

How to build an Email Validator App Using Next.js and Email Validator API?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build an email validator app using an API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

Interactive Guide to GraphQL Mutations

Let’s try to understand the GraphQL Mutations.

What is API Governance?

API governance refers to the best practices of creating and managing APIs in an organization.

What is API Mocking?

API Mocking lets you imitate and test a real API by emulating its responses, response behaviors, and endpoints.

How to build a Sports app in Next.js using a Sports API from RapidAPI Hub?

There are many sports-related APIs on RapidAPI Hub, which you can use to create a full-fledged sports application. Let’s build a Football Application using one of these APIs.

Interactive Guide to GraphQL Queries: Aliases and Variables

Let’s try to understand the Aliases, Variables in GraphQL queries.

How to use RapidAPI Teams to Share and Collaborate on APIs?

Learn how to use Rapid API Teams for sharing and collaborating on APIS.

How to do Response Chaining using RapidAPI Client(PAW)?

Response Chaining allows you to use the data returned from one request to make further requests.

How to build a Crypto News Next.js app using a Cryptocurrency API from RapidAPI Hub?

Today, APIs exist that provide all kinds of Cryptocurrency data. We will use one of these APIs in this guide to build a web app that shows the latest Cryptocurrency news.

How to build a Text Sentiment Analysis App using Next.js and Text Sentiment Analysis API?

Sometimes you want to analyze how the content you are writing sounds like. If you are a developer like me, you can build an application for this. Let’s do just that in this piece.

How to build a Time app using Next.js and World Time API?

When working remotely, we often need to know from which timezone someone is working. And if you have a global team, you often find yourself looking up different timezones to schedule a meeting. In this piece, let’s build a time app using an API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

Interactive Guide To Learn DOM API

A Document Object Model (DOM) expresses your screen viewport as a series of DOM nodes. In this piece, we are going to look at how you can use DOM API in your websites.

Basic Concepts of REST API

Other than the internal working, you need to know a few basic concepts to have a grip on REST APIs. Let’s take a look at these concepts in this piece.

Introduction To API Rate Limiting

API Rate Limiting is the process through which you limit the amount of traffic coming to your API by a single IP address. Let’s take a look at some of its types and methods.

How to build a Superhero App using Next.js and SuperHero Search API?

Are you a Marvel enthusiast or a DC lover? Are you also a developer who likes superheroes? Let’s build an app together using an API from RapidAPI Hub where people can search for their favorite heroes.

How to build a Next.js app using a GraphQL API?

Consuming GraphQL APIs is a bit different than other API types like REST. This guide will demonstrate how to fetch and use data from a GraphQL API in a Next.js application.

How to use RapidAPI Client – An API Developer Tool

RapidAPI Client is a cross-platform fully-featured API developer tool. Available for Web, macOS, Windows, and Linux, it offers an API client to debug, test, and interact with HTTP APIs.

How to use a GraphQL API in React using Axios?

Let’s see how we can fetch and use data from GraphQL in React using Axios.

4 Ways to Fetch Data from a GraphQL API in React

Here are 4 different ways you can use a GraphQL API in React.

How to use GraphQL APIs from RapidAPI Hub?

RapidAPI Hub allows you to find and use GraphQL APIs effortlessly. Let’s demonstrate that by trying a GraphQL API from RapidAPI Hub.

Interactive Guide to GraphQL Queries: Fields and Arguments

GraphQL queries enable declarative data fetching and expose only a single endpoint that you can use to get data.

How to build a Dictionary app using Next.js and dictionary API?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build a dictionary app using an API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

A Guide To Learn Fetch API

Fetch API is an asynchronous web API that comes with native JavaScript, and it returns the data in the form of promises. In this piece, let’s take a look at how you can use Fetch API in your web apps.

How to build a Text Extraction App using Next.js and TextAPI?

Sometimes you only want to see the content of a particular website. Maybe you are reading, and you don’t want to get distracted by ads or other parts of the website. Let’s build a text extraction application in this piece.

Introduction to Async APIs

AsyncAPI is an open-source project aimed at improving the current state of EDA. Let’s take a brief look at it in this piece.

How to build a Spell Checker App Using Next.js and JSpell Checker API?

You often have to write detailed documents at work. They can be proposals, guides, some documentation, etc. You need to ensure that you are not making any spelling errors in such important documents. Let’s build a spell checker app in this piece.

How to build a Paraphrase App using Next.js and Paraphrase API?

Every now and then we need to paraphrase some piece of content. There are a bunch of applications on the internet for this that you can use. Let’s build our own application just for this using an API from RapidAPI and Next.js.

How to build a Movie Details App using Next.js and IMDb API?

There are a lot of different movie APIs available on the Internet. Instead of looking for them, you can visit RapidAPI Hub and search for “movies” to see all the available APIs. Let’s build a small movie app in this piece.

How to build a Music App app using Shazam API and Next.js?

The Shazam API on RapidAPI Hub offers music related information and features provided by the likes of Shazam. This guide will demonstrate how to build a music application using the API.

How to build a QR Code Generator app using Next.js and a QR Code API?

QR codes allow you to share information quickly and seamlessly. They are used everywhere, from payment portals to social apps like Snapchat and WhatsApp. Let’s build an app that will generate a QR code for a given input.

Share and Collaborate on APIs using RapidAPI for Teams

If your team consumes, develops, or manages APIs, try Rapid API Teams. Today, more than 60,000 teams are using it for collaborating on APIs.

How to use RapidQL to get data from multiple APIs and databases

RapidQL lets developers query multiple API resources and databases at a time, combining them to create one unified query.

What is RapidAPI Testing?

RapidAPI Testing is a functional API testing and monitoring solution by RapidAPI that provides you an intuitive UX and support for any type of API. Let’s briefly look at it in this piece.

What is RapidAPI Client?

RapidAPI Client is an API testing product developed by RapidAPI that provides you with all the right tools you need for API testing. Let’s briefly look at it and some of its features.

What is GraphQL Schema Stitching?

GraphQL schema stitching is the process of creating a single GraphQL schema from multiple underlying GraphQL APIs. In this piece, we are going to look at why it exists and some of its use cases.

Introduction to the Fetch API

Fetch API is a Web API that uses promises to make network requests over the HTTP/1.1 protocol. Let’s take a look at it and how it works in this piece.

Introduction to the DOM API

DOM is a Web API that provides you with different methods that you can use to manipulate the HTML elements on the screen.

Introduction to Canvas API

You can draw graphics using JavaScript and the HTML canvas element. In this piece, you will get a small introduction about Canvas API and how you can use it in a website.

Introduction to Browser API

Browser APIs are used to build browser extensions and other web applications that utilize the functionalities of a web browser. In this piece, you are going to have a brief introduction about browser API and some of its types.

Difference between Kafka and REST API

The REST API is one of the most popular API architectures out there. But when you need to build an event streaming platform, you use the Kafka API. Let’s take a look at the differences between Kafka and REST API in this piece.

Difference between GraphQL and Kafka API

In thie piece, let’s take a look at GraphQL, Kafka APIs, and some of the differences between them.

Best Practices for Working with Kafka API

Apache Kafka is an event streaming platform that provides five core APIs for Java and Scala: Admin API, Producer API, Consumer API, Stream API, and Kafka Connect API. Let’s take a look at some of the best practices of using Kafka API.

Introduction to Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is used to build services like real-time data streams. It provides five core APIs for Java and Scala to implement such services. In this piece, we are going to briefly look at it and its core APIs.

What is API Pagination?

Performance is the most critical factor of an API, and pagination is one way of optimizing it. Let’s learn why.

How to Increase Adoption of your API

Let more developers discover and use your API. These few ways can increase API adoption.

How to build a COVID-19 Stats app using Next.js and COVID-19 API?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build an application that will show the user coronavirus stats of any country they enter.

What are Internal APIs?

Internal APIs or Private APIs are the ones that are only exposed to the clients and developers within the organization. Let’s look at some of the benefits of internal APIs.

How to build a News app using Next.js and News API?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build a news application using an API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

Introduction to Authentication and Authorization

Authentication and authorization are two different features that often play a crucial role in your application’s security, and you implement them using APIs. Let’s take a look at how both are different from each other.

Top Five Voice Recognition APIs

Top five Voice Recognition APIs you can use to build excellent full-stack applications.

What are Composite APIs?

Composite API is a design approach in which the developer sequentially batch API requests into a single API call. Let’s take a look at it and some of the parameters that affect its design.

Difference between APIs and Microservices

The API is like a middle man, connecting two sides; a waiter takes your order and brings you food. A microservice is an individual service in the microservice architecture. Let’s look at the different between these two in this piece.

How to Create a Text Sentiment Analysis App using React

Text sentiment analysis is a machine learning and natural language processing technique to analyze the text sentiment of a writer.

What are best API Management practices?

Your company’s growth directly influences its tech infrastructure, and this, in turn, affects the size of your APIs. So let’s take a look at some of the best API management practices.

Everything You Need to Know About HTTP Request Methods

HTTP request methods are the actions initiated from the client-side to perform certain actions.

How to use HTTP Compression to make your website faster?

Removing all the unnecessary and unwanted redundancy from a file to create a smaller file than the original is called compression. Let’s take a look at what HTTP compression is and how you can use it.

Introduction to REST API Principles

In this piece, let’s look at six ground principles of REST API laid down by Dr. Fielding (creator of REST API).

How to build a Currency Conversion App using Next.js and Currency Conversion API?

In this piece, I am going to show you how you can build a Currency Conversion app using Currency Conversion API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

Top Four APIs That Can Make Web 3.0 More Accessible

Top four APIs that can make Web 3.0 more accessible and manageable.

Introduction to API Gateways

API Gateway sends the incoming API traffic to the API management system that handles various other functions. In this piece, we are going to briefly look at API Gateways and its benefits.

Top Five SMS APIs

Top Five SMS APIs available on RapidAPI Hub to send text messages. You can use them in your next project.

How to use APIs from RapidAPI Hub?

The APIs are a crucial part of web development. You heavily rely on them to get the required resource from the Internet. In this piece, let’s take a look at how you can use different APIs from RapidAPI Hub in your web applications.

Top Five Amazing Text Analysis APIs

Check out these five amazing Text Analysis APIs. Feel free to use them in your next application.

Top Five Sports APIs

Top 5 sports APIs to build some of the best full-stack applications.

How does API caching work?

REST APIs cache its response. This cache can be used to fetch the same response later. Let’s take a look at it. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits of API caching and where it is used.

How to optimize your API performance?

APIs are used to communicate between client and server. If they are not optimized, they can become slow with the high surges of traffic. Let’s take a look at how you can optimise your APIs.

What is the difference between REST and GraphQL?

The REST and GraphQL are two different kinds of APIs. Let’s take a look at the differences between these two types of APIs in this piece.

Top Five Food Recipe APIs

Top 5 Food Recipe APIs you can use to build an excellent project.

Top Five Machine Learning APIs

I bring you the top 5 Machine Learning APIs to build excellent full-stack applications.

Top Five Movie APIs

We bring you the top 5 Movie APIs to build some of the best full-stack applications.

Introduction To API Security Vulnerabilities

There are many different vulnerabilities that you need to take care of while developing an API. In this piece, let’s take a look at some of them.

Top Five Facial Recognition APIs

Top 5 Facial Recognition APIs you can use to build excellent full-stack applications.

Top Five COVID-19 APIs

You can use COVID-19 APIs available on RapidAPI Hub to create excellent statistical applications.

Introduction to APIs

APIs are used to communicate between two architectures in order to perform CRUD operations. Let’s take a deeper look at it. In this piece, let’s take a look at APIs and some of its types.

Top Five Random Quote Generator APIs

Top five APIs you can use to build a Random Quote Generator web application.

Top Five Geocoding and Location APIs

Top five Geocoding and Location APIs you can use in your next full-stack application.

What are the different HTTP request methods?

There are nine HTTP request method that exist. Let’s briefly look at all of them in this piece.

Best Practices for Designing REST APIs

Take a look at best practices for designing a REST API.

Introduction to Publish/Subscribe Pattern Based API

Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) is an asynchronous messaging style used in serverless and microservices architectures.

HTTP Status Codes

HTTP status codes are divided into five categories. Informational, successful, redirects, client errors, and server errors.

Different Authentication Methods in REST API

You often need to add a user authentication system as a feature in your app, and REST API also acts as a bridge for this. Let’s take a look at different REST API authentication methods.

Ten Widely Used HTTP Headers

Client and server can pass the extra bit of information with the request and response using HTTP headers.

How to make your API secure?

While creating an API is simple, the next thing that comes along with it is securing it. Let’s take a look at some of the API securing methods in this piece.

Introduction to API Testing

API testing is performed to test whether a particular API meets pre-defined parameters or not.

How to build a weather app using Next.js and WeatherAPI?

In this piece, let’s build a weather application using an API from RapidAPI Hub and Next.js.

What is the Web API?

In this piece, let’s take a look at what Web API is and for what it is used for.

What is Jamstack?

It is a modern web development architecture based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markup. In this piece, we are going to look at Jamstack and what it is comprised of.

How to authenticate and authorize with GraphQL?

You can use REST APIs, GraphQL API, and gRPC to communicate between client and server. These communications also involve user authentications and authorization. Let’s take a look at GraphQL authentication and authorization in this piece.

What is DNS?

The most appropriate analogy of DNS is it is a phonebook of the Internet. In this piece, we are going to have a brief introduction of DNS and how it works.

How to update GraphQL API?

As your application grows, the API connecting it to the client also grows with it. If the API is publicly available, other developers might be relying on it for their products. Let’s take a look at how you should update your GraphQL API so it doesn’t crashes other people’s websites.