In this episode (9) of the Mr Frontend Podcast, we are gonna talk about: “How to spice up your technical skills during the end of 2017 holidays!”

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Spice up your skills with a Sideprojects for the end of 2017 holidays

Why?

• Build something cool or fun you enjoy while you set the requirements
• You can learn something new!
• Pick the Framework or Library you always wanted to learn or do it with Vanilla JavaScript!

Inspiration

• Build a Netflix clone with The MovieDB (https://www.themoviedb.org)
• Build a weather app with the Weather API (https://openweathermap.org/api)
• Build a blog with the WordPress JSON API, you may use the Mr Frontend WordPress API (http://blog.mrfrontend.org/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/)
• Build a blog with the Medium API (https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs#33-posts)
• Search your favorite Artist with the Spotify Search API (https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/search-item/)
• Build a User management system with the Random User API (https://randomuser.me)
• Create custom QR codes with the QR Code Generator API (http://goqr.me/api/)
• Build a wallpaper app with the Unsplash API (https://unsplash.com/developers)

Searching for Cool APIS?

• Check: https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis

Let me know what you build with it during the holidays!

Next week is the last episode of 2017! Then we take some time off and get ready for an energizing 2018 full of new stuff!

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See you next week!!

Originally published at Mr Frontend Blog.