Tag: API

How to get the user’s street address, using navigator.geolocation and MapQuest

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Let’s say that you have a webform where you are collecting a user’s street address.  You can save the user a few minutes by defaulting the value for them.  In this example, we are using Vue.js, Axios, a MapQuest API, and navigator.geolocation to first get the latitude and longitude from the client and then send it off to MapQuest to get a physical address.

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HTML5 Geolocation (how to get a street address) by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
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This example builds off of our earlier Axios / Vue.js 2 APIs 101 post. But you will notice that there is a methods property, now. The this.geolocation() function is then kicked off within mounted().

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Axios / Vue 2 101

Axios / Vue.js 2 APIs 101

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If you have a WordPress-based website like this one, you might eventually want to try to make use of its APIs.  Using Axios and Vue.js, it is pretty easy to do.  At the time of writing this, Vue.js 3 exists but I am going to use Vue.js 2 anyways.

There are two API endpoints that we care about for the purposes of this demo:  https://blog.jws.app/wp-json/ and https://blog.jws.app/wp-json/wp/v2/posts.  The first one will get us all of the basic information from the blog (such as the title and the description).  The second API endpoint will get us a listing of blog posts.

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Axios / Vue.js 2 APIs v1 by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
on CodePen.

There are two variables defined within data(): info and posts. Thanks to the way Vue works, you can reference {{info.home}}, {{info.name}}, and {{info.description}} before Axios has even finished getting the values from https://blog.jws.app/wp-json/.

Have a suggestion on how to better this example?  Feel free fork the pen and drop a link, below.