The Liturgical Date Checker project uses the Liturgical Calendar API to display information about Catholic Holy days. On page load it fetches info for today, tomorrow, and yesterday. It also has a search field that will return celebration info about a specific date. Objective This is just more basic API practice. I started this in […]
Read MoreA simple tool for checking Holy days. Uses the Liturgical Calendar API Installation Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/K8215/catholic-liturgical-date-checker.git Navigate to the project directory cd catholic-liturgical-date-checker Install dependencies npm install Usage Run the development server npm run dev Known Bugs This project does not work on the server due to content mixed content error. The […]
Read MoreAs part of my React API practice, I built a dirt simple Logo Finder using Clearbit’s Logo API. Simply enter a web domain, and the app will retrieve a logo image. Objective This is the third in a series of simple API fetching apps that I’ve built so far this year after the Public API’s […]
Read MoreApp that retrieves a logo image from a web domain using the Logo API by Clearbit. Installation Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/K8215/logo-finder.git Navigate to the project directory cd logo-finder Install dependencies npm install Usage Run the development server npm run dev Updates 3/7/2024 – Added enter key functionality.
Read MoreAdded another API fetching project, Open Library Search. The app pings the Internet Archive‘s Open Library Search API to retrieve author, publication, purchase, and topic data for a user-provided book title. Objective My goal is to continue cranking out simple fetch projects until I can do them without relying on a crutch. I used my […]
Read MoreApplication that takes user input and pings the Open Library Search API to return information about books. Installation Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/K8215/open-library-search.git Navigate to the project directory cd open-library-search Install dependencies npm install Usage Run the development server npm run dev Known Bugs I’m conditionally applying a link to each result depending on […]
Read MoreThere are several new enhancements to the Public APIs List project. Hide CORS APIs I added a checkbox at the top that will filter out any APIs that require CORS headers in order to fetch them. It was the first additional feature that came to mind as I was evaluating the available keys in the […]
Read MoreI built a simple app called Public APIs List that prints a list of all the free APIs available through public-api. Objective I want to get more comfortable with the JavaScript fetch API. I needed inspiration for another project to work on and figured I’d start by looking at big lists of free APIs that […]
Read MoreA dead-simple React app that fetches a list of free APIs from public-api. Installation Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/K8215/publicapis-list.git Navigate to the project directory cd publicapis-list Install dependencies npm install Usage The app can be used to view a full list of available API titles in a responsive four-column layout. Updates 2/15/24 Added checkbox […]
Read MoreI’ve furthered the UX enhancement to the Game Picker 9000. First I centered the loader and positioned it below the title output container. Previously it was jammed on top with no padding. If you searched more than once, the loader popped in awkwardly. The new alignment is more pleasing. I also added the player’s username […]
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