Star Wars & APIs: Display & Use Any Data in the Galaxy
Travel across the galaxy to integrate your next API in Bildr.
Watch a full-walk through of taking data from an API and pushing it into your Bildr Applications & Pages to use anyway you need to.
This is a great video to understand Bildr's page by page data movement, and how you can use external data collections easily inside of Bildr.
Use the application from the video here: https://starwars.bildr.com/
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00:00 Star Wars & APIs: Display & Use Any Data in the Galaxy
01:12 Demo of SWAPI API App in Bildr
02:07 Studio Project Setup
02:42 Ready API Docs Walkthrough
03:24 Determining Endpoint / URL for API Call
06:14 JSON Simplified - Previewing our Expected Reply
08:51 Setting Up an API Call in Studio
10:58 GraphQL Example
12:55 Handling an API Response
14:00 Custom Paths in API Calls
18:00 API Response vs. Status Code
18:35 Success & Failure Flows
19:58 Server-side vs. Client-Side Flows
21:54 Using our API_Response Variable & Paths
22:19 Sort Numerically with numericSort() Path
23:42 Demo Original API Call
24:42 Episode Row Page
25:28 Data Binding API Variables in Studio
26:50 Sending API Data & Records into a New Page
29:09 Page Load of Episode Content
29:50 Data Binding Examples
30:19 Format Release Date Action
32:01 Reformatting String Arrays of Data
34:12 Binding the Scrolling Intro Text
35:54 Pre-Caching & Optimization Tips
38:49 Looking up Names with Additional API Calls
41:28 Summary