Great Beginner Friendly API's To Start Practicing Frontend Development 🧑‍💻

UPDATE:
I have updated my list of beginner friendly APIs.
Check out numbers 9, 10 and 11 on the list! 🔥

Every beginner has been there. Once you really start to get efficient at HTML, CSS and Javascript, it's only a matter of time before you want to start playing with real-life data.
There are so many ways developers can manipulate data to make really cool and beautiful websites.

This is my list of low barrier to entry Rest API's to get you started! 💯

1. JSONPlaceholder

JSONPlaceholder provides a restful API to a wide variety of resources.

Posts
Comments
Albums
Photos
Todos
Users

2. Fake Store API

The Fake Store restful API provides the most important resources when you are trying to build you first mock e-commerce store.

Products
Cart
Users
Login Token

3. Unsplashed API

The Unsplashed restful API may live up to it's catchphrase as the "The most powerful photo engine in the world." What you'll have available to you:

Over 3 million photos
Search photos by keyword
Search random photos
Multiple datasets

4. Quotes API

The Quotes rest API provides a wide variety of different quotes and types of quotes, like:

Quote of the day
Quotes by categories
Randomly selected quotes
Quotes by Authors
Quotes by popularity

5. NASA API

One of my personal favorites, and one I believe will truly get the inner geek's imagination running wild. The Nasa restful API provides multiple resources like:

APOD ( astronomy photo of the day)
Astroid NeoWs ( near earth object web services)
Insight ( mars weather services )
Nasa Image and Video Library
And so much more!

6. SpaceX API

How about the worlds most popular space company, SpaceX! This restful API offers a variety of cool rocket details like:

Rockets
Rocket launches
Core
Starlink
Launchpad
Landing pad data

7. Coingecko

The Coingecko API is my go to resource for all things crypto. There are many out there, but this is the easiest hands down. Requires no api key, it's free, great for side projects! It provides multiple endpoints:

Coin price
List of all coins
Markets
Tickers
Price history
Market charts
Rage in prices
Contracts
Trading platforms
Exchanges and more!

Thanks to izaias 👍

izaias • Aug 31 '21

Boa noite, ótimo trabalho.
Vc teria ai em sua pesquisa api para moedas virtuais seria de grande valia.
Obrigado e parabéns 😀

8. OpenWeatherMap

The OpenWeatherMap restful API is a beloved resources for developers as well as my personal favorite, due to its simplicity. It does require an API key, but don't let that discourage you. Simply append your API key to your endpoint, and you're set. Get weather data the way you prefer:

by City name
by State code
by Country code
by Zip code
by Rectangular zone of geographic coordinates
by Circular zone of geographic coordinates
Multiple units of measurements
Icons included

Thanks to Felipe Panegalli 👍

Felipe Panegalli • Sep 2 '21

Great Post. If will you be like to add a new API... Wheater API (classic ) :D.

9. RandomUser

The random user API is an absolute must for beginner developers! Quickly prototype new concepts or designs with instant access to random users! Comes with all the data you need too:

Name
Email
Birthday
Address
Country
Phone
Company title and more!

10. SWAPI

Who doesn't sci-fi!? Proud geeks should appreciate this one. The Star Wars API has all the data you can possibly want from your favorite Star Wars characters. Get data like:

Planets
Spaceships
Vehicles
Films
Species
Home planets
Date of Birth and so much more!

11. PokeAPI

Pokemon is just as relevant to me as ever! Get instant access to the very easy to use restful Pokemon API. Get your fix of Japanese anime culture and get all the data you need on your favorite pocket monsters like:

Types
Abilities
Forms
Species
Stats and more!

Conclusion 👏

That's it for Great Beginner Friendly API's To Start Practicing Frontend Development! 😎 Without a doubt these very beginner friendly API's will get you inspired to publish your next app to share with the world!

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Also check out some of my other articles on productivity and react!