Last week, we finally got the park listing working and updated the instance at test.wisparks.jws.app. This week, I figured that we should add Bulma to the project and add sorting. So, let’s start by adding Bulma and cleaning the code up a little. See the Pen Wisc Parks (Part 5): Cleaning up the listing and …
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Last week, I got all the way to the end before the damn Google Sheets API stopped working on me. This week, I figured that we would create a JSON file out of the spreadsheet, host it somewhere, and then just use that. I started by creating a CSV file from the Google Sheets document, …
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Previously, we built an API for the State Parks App, using Google Sheets and we set up hosting for the thing. The next step is to actually write the first bit of the thing. When we created the API, we also wrote a little vue.js proof of concept that loops over the data and outputs …
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Previously, we took a look at my plan to build an app to track state parks. The first step towards phase 1 of the plan is to have some solid data, so we need to build an API. Last year, we looked at building a JSON API using Google Sheets. I don’t see any reason …
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Last week, we gathered COVID-19 statistical data. This week, we are going to try to build some charts using D3.js. D3.js is a javascript library that allows you to generate some fairly fancy charts and graphs but we are going to start with some basic bar charts. Let’s take a look at a simple example. …
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I have been wanting to work with some statistical data for a while now. Recently, I came across The COVID Tracking Project (a project of The Atlantic) and I figured that I would would look at what I could get out of the project’s APIs. The project has a lot of API endpoints but I …
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Back in January, we looked at how to use Vue and Axios to read from the JSON API for this blog. I figured that it is about time to look at how to do the same thing with XML. See the Pen Parse XML in JavaScript – Part 1 by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring) on CodePen. …
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You don’t necessarily need to write server-side code for everything. Sometime there is a much easier solution. Did you know that you can use Google Sheets as an API endpoint? Let’s take a look at a quick example. For a few years now, I have been archiving my tweets as Google Sheets documents. There is …
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Ever since Apple bought and shut down Dark Sky, I have been struggling to figure out what to replace it with. I figured that this would be a good excuse to play with some weather APIs. I have done this once before but that was with Rivets and YQL (neither of which I can necessarily …
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I haven’t had a lot at jws.app since registering the domain so, I spent a bit of time over the past few weekends and finally built a website there. The idea was that it pulls recent activity from travels.jws.app, photos.jws.app, blog.jws.app, github, and DEV and auto-updates the website based upon those feeds. I wanted to …
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