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Let's learn about some basic server types.
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How to write excellent API documentation👇🏼
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Introduction to APIs ⛓️
Let’s see what is an API and how APIs can make your life as a Developer easier.
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Read this RapidAPI Comic to learn about SSL/TLS!👇🏼
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This week’s RapidAPI Comic: The Anatomy of HTTP Requests.
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Read about JSON and XML in this week's RapidAPI Comic.
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Let's break down the process of building a REST API from scratch using Node.js and Express.
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Ten API-based project ideas for web developers 👇🏻
1. QR code generator 🔲
2. Weather app 🌦️
3. Translation app 🔤
4. Chatbot 🤖
5. Geolocation app 🌍
6. Messaging app 📭
7. Sentiment analysis 🔠
8. COVID tracker 🦠
9. URL shortener 🔗
10. Music player 🎵
What is HTTP exactly? Find out in this week's RapidAPI Comic.
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Do you know the difference between REST and GraphQL?
Find out in this week's RapidAPI Comic!
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Types of APIs in terms of architecture
- REST API
- GraphQL
- SOAP API
- Kafka API
- Async API
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What's the difference between the HTTP methods PUT and PATCH?
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There are 9 HTTP request methods:
🔹 GET
🔹 PUT
🔹 POST
🔹 HEAD
🔹 TRACE
🔹 PATCH
🔹 DELETE
🔹 OPTIONS
🔹 CONNECT
Let's talk about them in a bit more detail 🧵👇🏻
What exactly is the CRUD model?
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Five visuals that will change the way you learn API development.
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1. How DNS Works
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CORS: What is it?
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There are 9 HTTP request methods:
- GET
- PUT
- POST
- HEAD
- TRACE
- PATCH
- DELETE
- OPTIONS
- CONNECT
Let's talk about them in a bit more detail 🧵👇🏻
We have compiled over 50 excellent APIs for you, which you can use in your future projects.
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JSON vs. XML.
Let's learn about it in this week's Rapid API Comic.
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Ten API-based project ideas for web developers 👇🏻
1. Chatbot 🤖
2. Travel app ✈️
3. Movies app 📺J
4. Spell Checker 🧪
5. Email Validator ✉️
6. Jokes generator 😁
7. Food Recipe app 🍱
8. Crypto News app 💲
9. Text Extraction app ✍🏻
10. Visual Recognition app 👀
This week’s RapidAPI Comic is all about how DNS works!👇🏼
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Learn about CORS in this week's RapidAPI Comic 👇
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Do you know about REST APIs?
Take a look at this RapidAPI Comic.
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Read this RapidAPI Comic to learn about webhooks!
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Have some difficulties understanding what an API is?
Take a look at this RapidAPI Comic. 🧵👇🏻
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This VS Code extension will change the way you do web development.
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Do you know what HTTP Cookies are and what they do?
Find out in this RapidAPI Comic.
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HTTP status codes are pretty confusing sometimes.
🔹 Informational (100–199)
🔹 Successful (200–299)
🔹 Redirects (300–399)
🔹 Client errors (400–499)
🔹 Server errors (500–599)
Let's talk about them in a bit more detail 🧵 👇🏻
What's the difference between a Microservice and an API exactly?
Read this RapidAPI Comic to find out!
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Learn API design best practices in this RapidAPI Comic.
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Learn the difference between synchronous and asynchronous programming in this week’s RapidAPI Comic!
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API. What is it?
- What is an API
- Usage of APIs
- Types of APIs
- Benefits of APIs
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Ten API-based project ideas for web developers in 2022 👇🏻
1. Sentiment analysis 🔠
2. QR code generator 🔲
3. Geolocation app 🌍
4. Translation app 🔤
5. Messaging app 📩
6. URL shortener 🖇
7. COVID tracker 🦠
8. Music player 🎶
9. Weather app 🌦
10. Chatbot 🤖
Learn about HTTP Methods in this week’s RapidAPI Comic!👇🏼
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This week’s RapidAPI Comic is all about API endpoints.
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Most of the REST APIs we use are not actually REST APIs.
They are REST-Like.
A thread on what makes your API purely REST. 🧵
Take a look at this RapidAPI Comic about GraphQL.
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Make an API call in Python using three lines of code.
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What exactly is API rate limiting?
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Do you know about Cookie Authentication?
Find out in this RapidAPI Comic.
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