APIs

General

• 📖 Dev Resources: Public APIs • 250+ free APIs
  • This 7 minute video by Adrian Trawog walks through a few of them
• 📺 10 Fun API’s for Developers • 11 minute video by Codú Community
• hoppscotch/hoppscotch: 👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io
  • Use this to explore responses from new APIs instead of using the console?

Ecommerce

• 📖 Fake Store API • REST API that returns sample products, carts, and users that can be read and updated

Games

• Deck of Cards API • An API for playing cards

• Configure and use a Postman mock server | Postman Learning Center - use as quick backend for a POC?

• if making an api call that includes special characters, use encodeURIComponent to ensure those requests work and don’t break! Special characters in URLs always need to be encoded

• apple music api: Is Apple going to stop people from… | Apple Developer Forums - way to get a free developer token

• MusicKit: Meet Apple Music API and MusicKit - WWDC22 - Videos - Apple Developer

• apple developer: Design and Development Videos - Apple Developer

• ModHeader - Modify HTTP headers - useful Chrome extension for locally testing requests that require specific headers to be present