How to build an API Reading time: about 6 min Topics: IT and Engineering Both internally for your organization and externally for your users and customers, APIs offer business value and allow you to get more from your software by powering the communication among your applications. Gone are the...
Here, we’ll show you how to build a simpleREST API, with a focus onAPI designand implementation. We’ll also review how you can use thePostman API Platformto test the API you’ve just built. This tutorial assumes you have some basic familiarity with the Ruby programming language and the...
In current days the softwares are such that they serve a specific purpose. For other purpose they use other softwares using their APIS. In this way these small softwares comes together to build a whole systems. This architecture is called by some as micro services. Lets see the case of a ...
We won't modify other imports for now. If you try to run this now, you will get an error (Failed to compile. Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory .../src/reducers.js). So we need to create our main reducer file. Let's put it in the root directory (src). Create a new ...
However, it was hard to find good examples of best practices/patterns along the way, and wished there was a code-complete example of how to build a simple application that consumed a RESTful resource. We're here to fix that. Reflux Data Flow The Reflux uni-directional data flow has three...
When it comes to designing an API from scratch, developers have numerous starting points to choose from. Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, and other languages are all capable choices for developing your API. Other factors to build into your design considerations includeusability,scalability(coupled with...
Let’s build the server part of our app! Creating the API Before doing anything, we have to plan our application’s details and features. We are going to build a basic book wishlist, so we will be using two main entities: User and Book. A User will be able to: sign up, in order...
Build out our API Alright, now that our housekeeping is done, let’s move onto writing some of our own code. For this example, we’re just going to use Django’s built-inUserandGroupmodels, which will allow us to demonstrate converting SQL records into browser-friendly JSON without too ...
In this tutorial, I’m going to talk about how to build a simple cryptocurrency blockchain in Node.js. It’s not going to be too fancy, but just sufficient to assist you to understand how a blockchain works. I’ll call this simple cryptocurrencysmashingCoin. ...
In this piece, we will learn how to build a simple API using Node.js, deploy it on Heroku and then publish it on RapidAPI Hub to earn money from it.