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12 Rarely Used JavaScript Web APIs that Will Boost Your Website to THE MOON 🚀

Eluda on July 23, 2022

There are over 97 Web APIs, and you’re only using 5% of them. Let’s unlock that other 95 percent! After taking a long stroll down the dark realm...

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Andrew Baisden • Jul 23 '22

Great list there are so many to play around with.

Eluda • Jul 23 '22

Have fun :) They're totally useful, especially the Houdini API. You might also like this gem of a website: css-houdini.rocks/

Imagineee • Jul 26 '22

The amount of APIs available for the web is amazing, and the list of Native apis is also fascinating, allowing web developers to make native like apps.

The MDN Web api page always has something you never knew you app can do.

Eugene N.I. • Jul 24 '22

Awesome article. I never knew about many of these JS APIs now I know

littleTreeme • Jul 30 '22

hi，Can I translate your articles into Chinese and publish？

Madza • Jul 28 '22

Thanks a lot for these ✨👍

Ansh Saini • Jul 23 '22

Awesome curation. Thanks.

Eluda • Jul 23 '22

I'm glad you liked it ☺️

capscode • Jul 27 '22

Amazing, really very helpful and nice collection too…

Helitha Rupasinghe • Jul 26 '22

Great content!

Harshad Prajapati • Jul 27 '22

Good source of information

Krishna Agarwal • Jul 26 '22

Lots of Hardwork done by you
Great list.

Medea • Jul 24 '22

Really useful!

Eluda • Jul 23 '22

I'm really glad that you liked it!

Muhammad Uzair • Jul 23 '22

Great piece of content, indeed. 🔥

Eluda • Jul 23 '22

Thank you! 😄

Jonas Petri • Jul 23 '22

Wow, this list is amazing! These APIs seem so useful! Thank you for making it!

Eluda • Jul 23 '22

I'm glad you liked it!

Nejat Mhango • Jul 23 '22

Thanks

Eluda • Jul 23 '22

💜

Rachit Khurana • Jul 23 '22

These are really awesome

Eluda • Jul 23 '22

Thanks!

Victor Akande • Jul 25 '22

This is amazing, I've learnt a lot from this article

Eluda • Jul 25 '22

I'm really glad that you did :)

Abraham Meza Vega • Jul 27 '22

This is awesome, these APIs really simplify a lot of functionalities. Now the Screen Orientation API will become one of my best friends.

Ande Caleb • Jul 23 '22

interesting, i am particulary intersted in the IndexedDB, awesome article. i just googled its comparison to LocalStorage and SessionStorage..

Eluda • Jul 23 '22

I agree, IndexedDB is very interesting! Unbelievable how our browsers were hiding a built-in NoSQL database all this time 🤯

Avinash KP • Jul 26 '22

Awesome post

Chuck Fischer • Jul 28 '22

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It approaches two female tables and asks "Can I joinyou?