In recent years, we have been seeing the rise of cyberattacks and data breaches crippling organizations. Attackers often exploit weak and stolen credentials. Therefore, many organizations are not relying on using usernames and passwords i-e Single-factor authentication anymore. Instead, they are turning to multi-layered approaches, such as …
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How to Use the Currency Exchange API with PHP, Python, Ruby & JavaScript Examples
The Currency Exchange API allows developers to add real-time exchange rate information from 19 supported currencies into their software applications. Currency Exchange is a SOAP API that uses the Simple Object Access Protocol and XML to return values from input queries. Sign up for a free RapidAPI account to use the API with code snippets, …
How to Use the Love Calculator API with Python, PHP, Ruby & JavaScript Examples
The Love Calculator is a simple and fun API that can be used to build a free romantic partner compatibility application. Matchmaking services are provided by this API using linguistic analysis of the names of the couple involved. The Love Calculator is hosted by RapidAPI and free to use. Embed the script in a website or mobile application with a …
Monolithic vs Microservices Comparison: Which is the Best Architecture?
Software development is on the increase as there is a need for companies to have their business online. Moreover, individual software applications and programs help enterprises to be more effective and productive. It for this reason that there is a push to create enhanced applications that will lead to business efficiencies and growth. All …
Flutter vs. React Native: Which Do Developers’ Use More
These are popular cross-development platforms that use code structure to create applications for Android, Windows, and iOS users. Flutter is a Google initiative that was launched in 2018. Factors that allow flutter to be a preference include: Fast development - This platform enables you to build different applications using the same code. …
How to build a REST API with Node.js – Part 1
Since its inception in 2009, Node.js has grown leaps and bounds in popularity. In parallel, the community has also contributed libraries and third-party packages. By virtue of its ability to run server-side logic, Node.js enjoys a lot of adoption for implementing REST APIs. In this blog post, we show you how to build a REST API using …
How to use an E-mail API with JavaScript
Introduction This tutorial will show you how to use JavaScript to call an API to send e-mails. We will be using the Web API from SendGrid since it is free to send up to fifty (50) e-mails per day. We will be using Node on the command line for accessing the API with JavaScript, instead of the browser, to avoid any browser …
How to use Amazon Product/Review APIs in JavaScript
Why use Amazon APIs in JavaScript? Amazon has quickly become one of the most trusted online retail stores. Not only does Amazon have a great selection of products, but it's also a great source of customer reviews. Add to this a great return policy, an easy to use website and mobile app, and Amazon's reputation of reliability, and you can start to …
How to Build a YouTube App with React (React Youtube API Tutorial)
How to use YouTube APIs YouTube has become a very popular platform since its launch over a decade ago. It's a great source of self-education videos, such as "how-tos", and a great source of entertainment videos, such as "best of" videos for classical music. By using YouTube APIs, you can access this wealth of content within your applications. …
How to use the Instagram API with JavaScript
Introduction This tutorial will show you how to use the Instagram API with JavaScript. We will go step-by-step thru setting up and developing a new Nuxt.js app with Yarn. Then we will use Node.js on the command line to run a development server to render our user interface which will call the Instagram API with the push of a button. $ nuxt …
How to Build an Android App with JavaScript
Build an Android App with JavaScript for Generating QR Codes We are back with yet another Android app demo. This time, we take a different approach to building an Android app with JavaScript. Being the de-facto programming language for the web, JavaScript has enjoyed tremendous growth over the years, especially in frontend browser-based …
How to Build an App with Node.js & TypeScript
Introduction This tutorial will show you how to build an app with TypeScript. We will walk you step-by-step thru setting up, developing and running a web application that queries the Internet for current crypto-currency price data. We'll be using TypeScript in the React.js and Next.js frameworks. If you are new to TypeScript you may want to …
How To Use An API With TypeScript
Introduction This tutorial will walk you will walk you thru using a web browser to write some TypeScript code to access a couple free online APIs. Prerequisites To take full advantage of the topics covered in this tutorial you should have some familiarity with the following concepts: Submitting form data on a webpage Examining the web …
How to Create a Mobile App with NodeJS
What's a Mobile Backend? It does not take an expert to determine that the computing power of a server is most likely greater than the computing power of a mobile device. If an application has a heavy computational load than it becomes more efficient for the mobile device to send parameters to a backend server to do the heavy lifting and then …
How to use a Proxy API with Javascript
How to use a Proxy API with JavaScript One of the benefits to site owners for having an API is the reduction of bandwidth used by scripts. But sometimes a popular website will not provide an API to their public data. In this case, if you still need their public data you may want to download it from a script. But the same website which does not …
