In the software development world, practice makes perfect. Therefore, we should find as many ways to practice programming as possible. With free public APIs, we can practice programming by creating apps that use those APIs.

In this article, we’ll look at some practice project ideas that can use some of those APIs.

Bhagavad Gita API

The Bhagavad Gita API lets us access the Bhagavad Gita text all in one place.

To access the API, we need to authenticate via OAuth.

Bhagavad Gita is one of the most important Hindu religious texts.

British National Bibliography

The British National Bibliography API lets us search for book information.

It…

In the software development world, practice makes perfect. Therefore, we should find as many ways to practice programming as possible. With free public APIs, we can practice programming by creating apps that use those APIs.

In this article, we’ll look at some practice project ideas that can use some of those APIs.

Behance

The Behance API is an API with various design data that we can use.

We can access it with an API key.

We can use its endpoints to get projects, users, creative fields, and collections.

It comes with a JS wrapper, PHP library, a Ruby package, and a…

Preact is a front end web framework that’s similar to React.

It’s smaller and less complex than React.

In this article, we’ll look at how to get started with front end development with Preact.

Class Components

We can add class components as we do with React.

For example, we can write:

import { Component, render } from "preact";class Clock extends Component {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.state = { time: Date.now() };
  }  componentDidMount() {
    this.timer = setInterval(() => {
      this.setState({ time: Date.now() });
    }, 1000);
  }  componentWillUnmount() {
    clearInterval(this.timer);
  } render() { const time = new Date(this.state.time).toLocaleTimeString(); return <span>{time}</span>; }…

React is an easy to use framework for building front end apps.

NativeScript is a mobile app framework that lets us build native mobile apps with popular front end frameworks.

In this article, we’ll look at how to build an app with NativeScript React.

TextView

A textView is a UI component that shows an editable or read-only multiline text container.

For example, we can use it by writing:

import * as React from "react";export default function Greeting({ }) {
  return (
    <frame>
      <page>
        <actionBar title="My App">
        </actionBar>
        <stackLayout horizontalAlignment='center'>
          <textView text="MultiLine Text" />
        </stackLayout>
      </page>
    </frame>
  );
}

to add…

React is an easy to use framework for building front end apps.

NativeScript is a mobile app framework that lets us build native mobile apps with popular front end frameworks.

In this article, we’ll look at how to build an app with NativeScript React.

SegmentedBar

The segmentBar component lets us add a UI bar that displays a set of buttons for discrete selection.

We can show text or images on the buttons.

For example, we can use it by writing:

import * as React from "react";export default function Greeting({ }) { return ( <frame> <page> <actionBar title="My App"> </actionBar> <flexboxLayout…

Have you ever wondered how you could increase your exposure on the web? Recently I discovered a way to share my content online without paying tons of money for ads or campaigns on Google or Facebook. I found out that Linkedin could be a perfect way to distribute your content.

As LinkedIn is a business-focused social media platform, you already have a specific audience to target. Also, you can build a relationship or connection with users very easily.

You cannot only share your content on LinkedIn, but you can also use it to get in touch with potential customers and…

React Native is a mobile development that’s based on React that we can use to do mobile development.

In this article, we’ll look at how to use it to create our first app.

Getting Started

To get started with React Native, we’ve to install the Expo CLI.

We run:

npm install -g expo-cli

to install it.

Node 12 LTS or later is required.

Then we can create a React Native project by writing:

expo init react-native-example

We also have to install Android SDK with an Android device or emulator.

We can install Genymotion which is faster than the Android emulator.

To install…

Almost all the people in the world use social media to engage with new people and use them for other purposes. This will create a lot of opportunities for marketers to target their audience in that platform which has a large amount of audience and can relate to your product or service. Social media marketing is not only about how many likes and followers you have got, it’s about how much your business earns with the help of social media marketing.

Social media platforms Like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram all give you the ability to market your brand whether…