Best of REST API — May 2023

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   Community Picks·3y

   Rust 🦀 CRUD Rest API with Docker 🐳

   Learn how to create a CRUD Rest API in Rust using Serde for JSON serialization and deserialization, Postgres for the database, and Docker for containerization.

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   ByteByteGo·3y

   Design Effective and Secure REST APIs

   The Richardson Maturity Model (RMM) helps us distinguish good from bad API design by assessing how closely an API aligns with the REST framework. In the next issue, we’ll explore how to construct a shopping cart API and study the Stripe payment API redesign.

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   mudler/LocalAI: :robot: The free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. Self-hosted, community-driven and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Run

   LocalAI is a free and open-source alternative to OpenAI that allows running LLMs, generating images and audio locally or on-prem with consumer-grade hardware. It supports multiple model families and does not require a GPU. It offers various features including text generation, text to audio, audio to text, image generation, OpenAI functions, embeddings generation, and more. The project is community-driven and welcomes contributions.

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   builder.io·3y

   Rapid Mock API creation with ChatGPT and json-server

   ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help front-end developers generate mock data and serve it over a RESTful API with ease. With ChatGPT, generating a dataset becomes a breeze, and with json-server, creating a fake RESTfulAPI requires zero coding.

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   ts-rest

   First Class DX less unnecessary builds in monorepos, instant compile-time errors, and instantly view endpoint implementations through your IDEs "go to definition" Framework Agnostic ts-rest comes with a whole host of support frameworks, including Express, Nest, Next and react-query.

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   asayer·3y

   Getting Started with JSON Server

   In any scenario where you need a server quickly, a “magical’ tool can help you spin up a mock server locally in seconds. This article will look at and how it makes the work of a front-end developer a little easier and much faster. In computer networking, a client and a server are separate computer systems.

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   SitePoint·3y

   Build Your First JavaScript ChatGPT Plugin — SitePoint

   Build Your First JavaScript ChatGPT plugin is an exciting new way to extendChatGPT’s functionality, incorporate your own business data and add another channel for customers to interact with your business. In this article I will explain what Chat Plugins are, what they can do, and how you can build your own with JavaScript.

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   asayer·3y

   Getting started with Deno: Building a REST API

   Node.js is an open-source, server-side runtime environment that allows developers to use JavaScript on the server side. This article will provide you with a very valid option by showing you how to use Deno, by building a RESTful API. Deno was created to address some of the limitations of Node.

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   Baeldung·3y

   Why an HTTP GET Request Shouldn’t have a Body

   Why an HTTP GET Request Shouldn’t have a Body? In this tutorial, we'll learn why that request shouldn't be sent with a body. We'll explore the alternatives to having a body in a GET request. We may want to send GET requests with bodies for convenience.

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