You usually overlook that APIs exist for a lot of the platforms you employ. Whereas some corporations lock down their APIs to solely present very restricted data, DEV.to goes the additional mile to offer an especially sturdy API. Let’s go over what is out there!
Hyperlink to Challenge: https://www.josephamaurer.com/Initiatives/DevAPI/RecentDevPosts.html
Hyperlink to DEV API Documentation: https://docs.forem.com/api/
DEV’s API permits for many fascinating performance. Within the video above, I am going over a use case the place you pull the newest 100 posts, and create bootstrap playing cards for every. In every card I show three buttons. The primary is both lively or disabled if the person has a twitter account. That is helpful as a result of I wish to retweet articles and tag their creators. The second button is a hyperlink to the DEV put up. Lastly the third button opens the API response for the article.
Whereas my instance confirmed articles, there are many various things that the API can return to you. One of many extra fascinating performance is the power to put up an article fully from the API. I don’t know why you’d wish to do this, but it surely might be helpful.
All in all, it’s cool to assume that this performance exists, even for those who can’t discover a sensible use case for it. One of many extra helpful use instances may simply be populating your current articles out of your weblog to your web site.
Let me know what you’d wish to do with this API!