Review API and example set

[YasharF]

I would like to suggest reviewing the current list of the APIs that are supported, and if there are new ones that need to be added or some that need to be removed. Factors I suggest to use are:

• What are the most popular websites with APIs? https://www.alexa.com/topsites
• What were the themes and needed APIs for some of the popular hackathons last year?
• What APIs have an actively maintained npm package by the service provider?

[YasharF]

Another potential source could be top github projects: https://github.com/trending/javascript

It looks like:

• https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs and https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-examples are pretty high on the list right now, perhaps some tensorflow examples would be a good candidate to consider.
• Popmotion and D3JS ChartJS examples could be interesting, as both are high in the list as well.

(Update: scratching D3JS due to potential licensing issues)

[YasharF]

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/which-are-developers-favorite-apis/research/2017/09/01 https://www.programmableweb.com/category/all/apis

[niallobrien]

Not a bad idea. Personally I've tended to avoid D3js due to its complexity and gone for much simpler charting solutions if looking to get something out the door as quickly as possible, such as Chart.js. However, this would add a significant amount of weight to the front-end JS file-size, so we need to consider the pros/cons of which libs to include.

[YasharF]

Not enough reuse to put it in this project, but just for fun posting this here:

The Marvel Comics API allows developers everywhere to access information about Marvel's vast library of comics—from what's coming up, to 70 years ago. https://developer.marvel.com

[YasharF]

Some finance related API might be useful. I did a hackathon a few weeks ago sponsored by CapitalOne with some banking APIs and BlackRock has some APIs as well. The CapitalOne API might not be the best candidate though since at the time of the Hackathon they told us they are only available for banking in the US.

https://developer.capitalone.com/ http://rockthecode.io/api/

[YasharF]

Bitly's API can come handy: https://dev.bitly.com

[YasharF]

An example to access, read/write to Google Drive would be useful as well. A user authenticates with Google and Hackathon Starter has the hooks to write some setting or user data to their Google Drive account, and read it back at a later point. Another Google Drive use might be to put something in it and then generate a shareable link that the user can use.

This could be used on a service like AWS S3 as well, but there is a cost associated with it, while Google Drive as far as scope of a hackathon goes would be free.

update: created a seperate github issue for this APi example: https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter/issues/887

[YasharF]

Integration with a financial data reporting service. That could potentially hit the mark for ChartJS or another charting example.

I did a quick search and some candidates are: https://blog.quandl.com/api-for-stock-data https://iextrading.com/developer

Between the two quandl seems to be a better candidate.

[YasharF]

Examples with:

• PhaserJS: https://phaser.io
• 3JS: https://threejs.org

[YasharF]

Machine learning examples

[YasharF]

Creating a seperate issue for Quickbooks integration: https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter/issues/886

[YasharF]

Created a separate issue for video call/conferencing: https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter/issues/891

[YasharF]

VISA Developer APIs https://developer.visa.com/apibrowser/#segment=ISV

[YasharF]

FB Messenger's chat plugin: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/discovery/customer-chat-plugin

[YasharF]

An example using a rich text editor (i.e. ckeditor, ...):