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Array.prototype.at
8.11.2021
Working with arrays is an essential skill in any programming language, especially JavaScript, as we continue to rely on external data APIs. JavaScript has added methods like find and `findIndex recently, but one syntax I love from languages like Python is retrieving values by negative indexes. When...
Education Ecosystem Is Set to Become the Biggest Crypto Channel for Developers on YouTube
2.11.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Education Ecosystem (LEDU), a leader in online project-based learning, is excited to announce that it is presently creating over 1000 video projects for CMC Top 100 blockchains to teach developers how to build new applications related to financial apps, decentralized markets, games...
NFTPort Brings Developer APIs to Polygon Studios
22.10.2021
Polygon recently announced joining hands with NFTPort to bring developer APIs to Polygon Studios. Also known as the Stripe for NFTs, NFTPort is bringing new APIs to help developers build NFT apps on Polygon. The latest integration will see NFTPort joining forces with Polygon Studios to empower...
Working With Built-in GraphQL Directives
1.10.2021
Directives are one of GraphQL’s best — and most unspoken — features.
Let’s explore working with GraphQL’s built-in schema and operation directives that all GraphQL spec compliant APIs must implement. They are extremely useful if you are working with a …
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Video optimization for the web simplified with ImageKit
21.9.2021
Learn how you can resize and optimize video assets using ImageKit's URL-based video APIs.
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Native JavaScript Routing?
23.8.2021
We can update the URL in JavaScript. We’ve got these APIs:
// Adds to browser history
history.pushState({}, "About Page", "/about");
// Doesn't
history.replaceState({}, "About Page", "/about");
JavaScript is also capable of replacing any content in the DOM....
JavaScript Numeric Separators
10.6.2021
Writing good code is important — writing code that’s easily human readable is a next level skill. It’s not often that APIs are introduced whose seemingly only useful function is making code more readable, but let me introduce you to JavaScript numeric separators: an API that lets...
Custom State Pseudo-Classes in Chrome
6.5.2021
There is an increasing number of “custom” features on the web platform. We have custom properties (--my-property), custom elements (<my-element>), and custom events (new CustomEvent('myEvent')). At one point, we might even get custom media …
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Oracle Service API3 Partners With the Open Banking Project, Plans to Connect 400 Banking APIs to Blockchain
20.4.2021
On Monday, the oracle provider API3 announced a ten-year partnership with the Open Bank Project in order to connect more than 400 banking APIs to blockchain smart contracts using API3’s Airnode. The collaboration between API3 and the Open Bank Project aims to bridge conventional banking with...
Maximizing TPS: Smartbch Developer Explains Project’s Potential, Metamask Capabilities Seen in the Wild
15.4.2021
During the first week of April, Bitcoin.com News reported on the sidechain project Smart Bitcoin Cash Project (Smartbch), as the community has been very excited about this new venture. Smartbch aims to connect Ethereum’s EVM and Web3 APIs to a smart sidechain built using the Bitcoin Cash...
Five Top Quality APIs
13.4.2021
It’s easy to think about creating beautiful UIs for presenting data when you don’t consider the effort that goes into gathering and serving the data itself. Here’s the thing — thanks to apilayer, you can focus on your UIs and not the pain of API creation. No need to worry...
Alchemy Chooses Flow Blockchain to Accelerate Game-Changing Developer Ecosystem
25.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. The leading blockchain developer platform, Alchemy, will bring its best-in-class suite of APIs and tools to Flow blockchain, empowering Fortune 500 companies as well as thousands of independent developers building on Flow. Alchemy is the leading API platform for blockchain...
Platform News: Defaulting to Logical CSS, Fugu APIs, Custom Media Queries, and WordPress vs. Italics
12.3.2021
Looks like 2021 is the time to start using CSS Logical Properties! Plus, Chrome recently shipped a few APIs that have raised eyebrows, SVG allows us to disable its aspect ratio, WordPress focuses on the accessibility of its typography, and …
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Insert Cursor at Any Position at Command Line
11.3.2021
As much as I enjoy writing lengthy pieces of JavaScript APIs, techniques, and other tech brilliance, I very much enjoy providing people quick tips to make their daily dev lives better. This is one such post. Oftentimes I’m working with long command line directives, and as you can imagine,...
Boost app engagement with chat, voice, and video APIs
25.2.2021
Sendbird is a service for helping you add social features to your app. Wanna add in-app chat? Sendbird does that. Wanna add in-app voice or video calls? Sendbird does that.
Here’s how I always think about stuff like this. Whatever …
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How to Build a GraphQL API for Text Analytics with Python, Flask and Fauna
11.2.2021
GraphQL is a query language and server-side runtime environment for building APIs. It can also  be considered as the syntax that you write in order to describe the kind of data you want from APIs. What this means for you …
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Visa Pilots System to Help Banks Provide Crypto Services Including Buying, Trading, Custody of Bitcoin
3.2.2021
Visa is piloting a new system to enable banks to seamlessly integrate crypto features. Using Visa’s crypto APIs, banks can offer a number of cryptocurrency services to their customers, including the buying, trading, and custody of bitcoin. Visa announced Wednesday a partnership with First...
Visa Signals Further Crypto Ambitions With API Pilot for Bank Customers to Buy Bitcoin
3.2.2021
Visa is working with Anchorage to allow customers at traditional banks to "buy and sell digital assets such as Bitcoin."
JavaScript Wake Lock API
25.1.2021
An enjoyable web apps rely on engineers implementing the APIs that cover all of the small things. Those small things sometimes improve performance, usability, accessibility, and the app’s relationship with its host system. The Wake Lock API is the latter — an API that allows developers...
Creating CSS APIs without JavaScript With the datasette-css-properties plugin
8.1.2021
Simon Willison has a project called Datasette, an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data. I’m not sure I’m qualified to explain it, but it’s like a tool to make handling data easier and doing more — …
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