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Blog posts of 'API' tag

Build the Back-End For Your Own Instagram-style App with Cloudinary

By Christian Nwamba
Build the Back-End For Your Own Instagram-style App with Cloudinary

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Managing media files (processing, storage and manipulation) is one of the biggest challenges we encounter as practical developers. These challenges include:

A great service called Cloudinary can help us overcome many of these challenges. Together with Cloudinary, let's work on solutions to these challenges and hopefully have a simpler mental model towards media management.

The process to building this solution is a hands on example which will get our hands dirty but a practical approach. Instagram and Flickr are known for heavy image processing so we can take inspiration from these apps and build something similar.

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Bounce! Hacking Jazzfest with Social Videos

By Eric Normand
Bounce! Hacking Jazzfest with Social Videos

Last week, I was invited to an exclusive hackathon to build apps for musicians. The app team I was assigned to was tasked with building a video upload site for Bounce videos. Bounce is a style of music that originated in New Orleans. The app would be called BounceDotCom.com and there were plans to have Big Freedia, the Queen of Bounce, promote it. I knew the organizer could make things happen, so I jumped at the chance.

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How to develop a React library

Amir Tocker
By Amir Tocker
React.js Tutorial: How to develop a React library

Developing a library requires a different approach from developing an application. You must consider the use of the library in someone else’s application and design for it. React is well suited for this purpose. And if the library you are creating is an adapter to another library, you can dynamically generate the component's properties definition to ensure they are forward compatible. There is however more than one way to achieve the same goal, with some conventions to follow and others to cautiously not follow. In particular, I chose to use the context function even though it is an experimental feature because it is useful when you don’t know, or can’t dictate, the way your library's components will be utilized.

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API for extracting semantic image data - colors, faces, Exif data and more

Nadav Soferman
By Nadav Soferman
When images are involved, web developers have a large set of relevant tools at their disposal. You can display images in your web sites and mobile applications. You can manipulate and transform such images using image editing and manipulation software or cloud-based solutions like Cloudinary. But there are other types of data embedded in image files that can add unique semantic information to the images and are hardly ever used.
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RESTful API for managing your website's images and other online assets

Tal Lev-Ami
By Tal Lev-Ami
Different online services, websites and mobile applications have very different image management requirements. Despite the differences, the image management pipeline boils down to the same basic formula - upload the images, normalize them, store them and manipulate them to create derivatives (thumbnails, effects, watermarks, etc.). Afterwards, prepare them for delivery and make sure they are accessible to your users quickly and efficiently when browsing your website or using your mobile app.
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