Best of REST API — February 2023

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   Community Picks·3y

   A Full Guide: Understand Everything About APIs with Examples

   Learn about APIs, their importance, different types, how REST APIs work, securing APIs, and writing API documentation with an example of building an e-commerce API using Flask.

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   asayer·3y

   A Guide to React's useEffect Hook

   A Guide to React's useEffect Hook Back React’s hook is one of the trickiest and most powerful hooks in functional components, allowing you to perform side effects. In React, side effect effectively means any operations that affect something outside the component, such as making a REST API call, updating the DOM, etc.

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   Pointer·3y

   apitable/apitable: 🚀🎉📚 APITable, an API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps and better than all other Airtable open-source alternatives.

   APITable is an API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps and better than all other Airtable open-source alternatives. We will publish the first release in late February 2023. If you want to set up your local development environment, read our Developer Guide.

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   Real Python·3y

   Build a JavaScript Front End for a Flask API – Real Python

   Developers can separate JavaScript front-end code from the back-end logic that a web framework like Flask provides. Following this step-by-step project, you’ll create an interactive single-page application with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The foundation is an existing Flask project with a REST API and a connected SQLite database.

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   DZone·3y

   Top 5 Go REST API Frameworks

   The post discusses the top 5 Go REST API frameworks, provides tips for choosing the right API Golang framework, and highlights the pros and cons of using Gin.

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   DZone·3y

   gRPC vs. REST

   This post compares the architectures of gRPC and REST for client-server communication. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each architecture, as well as their use cases. It also highlights the technical differences between gRPC and REST, such as the message format, protocol, latency, payload limit, security, and speed. The post concludes by stating that while REST is still the most popular architecture, gRPC is well-suited for high-workload applications.

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   Product Hunt·3y

   Thunder Client - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024

   Thunder Client is a Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code that makes API testing easy with its scriptless GUI-based testing. It recently launched Thunder Client CLI, which provides a new way to test APIs inside VSCode and comes with features like integration with the Thunder Client extension, VSCode themes, run request and collections, etc.

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