API lifecycle struggles with fractured tools and workflows. RapidAPI Studio fixes this by offering the only tool you need for complete API Lifecycle Management.
API development is broken and chaotic. But you can improve API Development by using the right API Dev Tools. Let’s see how RapidAPI solves 22 API Developer problems in 2022.
Interfaces help developers enforce type checks on the data received in the API response. Consequently, the code quality and readability are also improved. However, instead of creating them manually, you can use the RapidAPI VS Code Extension to generate them automatically.
TypeScript is the superset of JavaScript that offers type-checking to avoid issues related to types. The RapidAPI VS Code extension allows you to test and call APIs in TypeScript easily without leaving VS Code.
While testing APIs, we often have to leave VS Code and head over to other API Clients. This jumping between projects wastes time and productivity. With the new RapidAPI Extension, you can test APIs quickly without leaving VS Code.
APIs have become fundamental to every software organization. API lifecycle gives directions for managing an API from when it is created to when it is retired.
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 how-to guide.
HTTP headers allow clients and servers to talk to each other and pass extra bits of information or instructions. Let’s see how to set them using Axios.
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.
Today, APIs have become fundamental to applications. Whether we know it or not, we utilize APIs daily in our lives, and this guide will cover some of them.
Today, there are countless APIs that provide access to all kinds of data for web applications. This guide will cover the best real state and mortgage listing APIs.
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.
APIs (Application Programming Interface) connect applications and let them interact. API calls provide the medium for this interaction. Let’s see how they work.
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.
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.
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 how-to guide.
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.
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.
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.
In this guide, we will create a book search application with React and Next.js. It will fetch details of a given book using a books API from RapidAPI Hub.
Random color palettes provide inspiration if you are looking for colors for your projects. Let’s build a random color palette application using an API.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
React is the most popular front-end JavaScript library. This guide will describe the different ways you can use to manage API calls in your React applications.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 how-to guide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Documentation allows users to understand and connect with your API smoothly, ensuring a good developer experience. Here are some tools that help developers create and maintain API documentation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
GraphQL Mutations are used for modifying server-side data that includes creating, updating, or deleting it. Learn more about them in this interactive guide.
Response Chaining allows you to use the data returned from one request to make further requests. Let’s see how the RapidAPI Client can chain responses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
