3 posts tagged with "api"

Performance & Load Testing your web services is crucial with APIs becoming more prevalent in usage and required through testing for handling adhoc and busrt loads thoughout the product lifecycle. K6.io is one such tool from well known opensource team graphna labs that enables basic to advance testing sceraios for the developers to test their API's and identify any potential blockages across the service by writing tests in their well known scripting language 'javascript'. This blog article guides you to quickly setup and run the load test in literaly in 5 minutes. YES in 5, can't beleive jump write in

Features :

• available as opensource and also SaaS
• Script tests in Javascript
• Supports 3rd party integrations and extensions
• quick to setup and use

Lets Begin...

Wanted to create something fun with jsx, Live coding. Go ahead try setting initial value of the counter and update function to your liking or write your own code. Give it a try! visit Live Coding Demo under tutorials on how to implement in your website

function LiveCode(props) {
    const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

    return (
        <div>
        <h1> {count} </h1>
        <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>Add</button>
        <span> </span>
        <button onClick={() => setCount(count - 1)}>Sub</button>
        </div>
    )
}

Collection of Open API's to work during development of any of your app ideas, includes free, paid and freemium based services that can be integrated with any application checkout thier websites for getting your own apikey, pricing information and documentations.

API Key Required​

• Auth0 : Easy to implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform by okta, free plan with up to 7,000 active users and unlimited logins

• GetOTP : GetOTP is a web service that helps you build a complete multichannel One Time Password (OTP) with almost no code. With a simple API call, you can implement your verification flow. No need to worry about retries or multiple channel logic. Free plan includes 100 requests for email OTP only over a month

• AbstractAPI Holidays: Retrieve religious, non-public and public holidays for 200+ countries worldwide and for any specific year. They also provide ip lookup and others too. visit their website

• Public apis : A collective list of over 1.4k free APIs for use in software and web development on github

NO API Key or authentication required​

• my-ip : gives you ip address info with location, simple to use curl https://api.myip.com

• Random User Generator : gives test user data with name, email, profile pic , address and many user related attrobutes

• Exchange rates : exchange rates conversion based on base currency suplied in currency codescurl https://open.er-api.com/v6/latest/USD

• Daily Astronomy picture : high quality space pics

• JSON Placeholder : REST API for test data

• Public API : api for public apis project on github, supports other methods like /random and /categories

• Random Jokes : jokes for a little laugh