API's To Start Practicing Frontend Development

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: