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14 articles tagged with api.

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The React Native Live Activities Handbook: How to Build iOS Live Activities and Android 16 Live Updates

A Live Activity is the card that sits on your lock screen while a delivery rider approaches, updating itself without you opening the app. Apple shipped the API in iOS 16.1. Google shipped its own vers

Farouq Seriki 62 min1 day ago
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How to Turn a Postman Collection into a Maintainable pytest Suite

A Postman collection is a great place to explore an API. But it's a poor place to keep your tests. Most teams find this out the slow way. Someone exports the collection, converts the requests into tes

Mikhail Golikov 6 min6 days ago
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How to Implement Role-Based Access Control in a Node.js REST API with JWT

The first time I built an API without thinking about roles, I gave every logged-in user the same access. It worked fine until a regular user accidentally hit a delete endpoint and wiped test data. Tha

Zia Ullah 10 min6 days ago
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How to Defend Your JavaScript App Against Unsafe Data with TypeScript Guard Utilities

Picture this: you hit an API endpoint, and you get an API response back. You pass the data straight into your application, and everything looks fine in development. Your mock data is clean, your types

Kelechi Apugo 13 min14 days ago
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How to Build Secure-by-Default Node.js APIs

Most security problems I've shipped in my career weren't exotic. They weren't nation-state attacks or clever zero-days. They were boring. A missing limit here, a forgotten timeout there, a string comp

Devlin Duldulao 24 min21 days ago
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[Hands-on Gemini 3.5 Live

Brand New API Unveiled: Gemini 3.5 Live Translate On June 9, 2026, Google officially...

Evan Lin8 minabout 1 month ago5
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From Flutter to Backend: How to Build Production-Grade REST APIs with Dart and Dart Frog

Dart backend frameworks exist on a spectrum. At the minimal end sits Shelf, with raw primitives and full control. You wire everything yourself. At the maximal end sits Serverpod. It's a full framework

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole 22 minabout 1 month ago
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Beyond NVIDIA: Where the AI Infra Trade Actually Shows Up

The AI capex trade is usually discussed like one clean idea. Capex simply means capital expenditure, or the money companies spend on long-term assets like data centers, chips, servers, power systems,

Nikhil Adithyan 17 minabout 2 months ago
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Build Professional Web Scrapers That Actually Work

Web scraping has evolved. If you’ve ever tried to pull data from a site, only to be hit with a CAPTCHA, an IP ban, or a "403 Forbidden" error, you know that modern websites are built to block automate

Beau Carnes 2 minabout 2 months ago
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How to Build an Autonomous OSINT Agent in Python Using Claude's Tool Use API

When I started studying OSINT, I always felt I was just putting random values into software without deeply understanding what I was doing. After months in the field, I realized I wasn't really investi

Tommaso Bertocchi 11 min2 months ago
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How to Build a Scoped Note-Taking API with Django Rest Framework and SimpleJWT

If you've built a Django API and you're wondering how to add authentication so that each user can only access their own data, you're in the right place. Most Django tutorials teach you session-based a

Prabodh Tuladhar 32 min2 months ago
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How to Use React's Context API – Tutorial with Examples

In React, data is typically passed down from parent to child via props. But this can lead to "prop drilling" – where we have to pass props down through lots of components to get them where they're nee…

Danny 13 minalmost 2 years ago
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How to Create Infinite Scrolling in React Using the Intersection Observer API

Hi fellow developers! Have you ever wondered how social media apps like Facebook and Instagram keep you scrolling endlessly through your feed? This user experience, designed to load new content on dem…

Kunal Nalawade 6 minabout 2 years ago
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How to Validate Forms in React and React Native Using Yup and Formik

Validation is a key part of development, regardless of what programming language you’re writing. Developers should always be validating user input, API parameters, and retrieved values. One of the mos…

Grant Riordan 11 minabout 2 years ago