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Fill up your portfolio with meaningful projects in 2020, Use these APIs

Aashir Khan on February 09, 2020

This post was first published on my official blog Hi, You should be filling up your portfolio with new shiny projects, then just landing pages o...
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Adam

Cool article. The NASA Open APIs are worth to check out also!

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Aashir Khan

Yep, NASA is perfect for beginners and it's a lot flexible than other APIs so it can be used easily in many ideas.

I'll add it to the main list

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Antonin J. (they/them)

For all the gamers out there, try out IGDB which has an API to interact with game-related data :)

If you fancy that over a movie database!

Thanks for the list!

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Aashir Khan

Thanks, for adding more value to this list.

I'll look up to this, and then add it into the main list.

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Carlos V

This SpaceX REST API is also worth checking out! :)

github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API

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Aashir Khan

Thanks, for this.

I'll look up to it and add NASA and SpaceX in the main list.

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Kyle Griffin

With the unsplash API, a regular fetch request will get N number of the same picture over and over. How does one modify the request to get a different one for each iteration of the loop?

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Aashir Khan

Can you provide some more information like what framework you're using?
And what end result you want with the real-world example. 🙂

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Kyle Griffin

Literally just using the fetch promise in vanilla JS and outputting it using Map or a forEach loop. What do you propose?

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Alexandro Disla

Cool. It's very appreciated. I am starting my journey with Elixir. For some reason i seems to be attracted by it. we will see what i will be able to do.

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Travis Woodward

I recently used PokeAPI to build a voice activated Google Assistant app. It's a really good API!

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Robert

Curious on how the PokeAPI was integrated?

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King Niphemi

What's PWA

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Paul Phillips

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