Fun with APIs
Your prompt is an open-ended one: make something cool using a 3rd party API! There's no need to create a back-end for this assignment -- just stick to HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Not sure where to start? Here is a suggested workflow...
- Set up your HTML and CSS. Figure out what you want your app to look like.
- Set up Javascript that works with dummy data. Hard-code some fake data so you can nail down how you want Javascript to render data on the webpage.
- Create your AJAX call. Just make sure it's working -- don't worry about handling the response yet.
- Extract information from your response. How do you go about accessing it?
- Handle API Response. What are you going to do with the API response? How will you render it in your HTML/CSS?
- AJAX error handling. What will your program do when your API call doesn't work?
APIs you may (but don't have to) use...
These are much more ambitious because they require authentication:
There's an API for pretty much everything. You can search for more at Mashape.
If you find yourself spending more than 30 minutes just getting the API to talk back to you, you're spending too much time. Use one of the prompts from this next section:
Need an app idea?
Feel free to give these prompts a try...