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GitHub user search app [using jQuery]

jquery
Jo Young•840
@Jo-cloud85
A solution to the GitHub user search app challenge
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Solution retrospective

Another API challenge completed! This is much tougher than the advice API generator app challenge because of the number of errors or conditions to check for, against each user's GitHub data.

Unlike the advice API, this GitHub API requires an authentication key thus for security reasons (because I have not learned enough about the backend side), I have removed my auth. key temporarily so the search will not work on your side. Technically, with .gitignore, you can hide your key but any script that is stored on the client side instead of the server side, with a link to a key, is still not very safe. Thus, if you want to test the code, you gotta get your own auth key from GitHub and add it to a config.js file.

Nevertheless, the light and dark toggle and the media queries should still work. I will come back to modify it once I learn the backend side.

Cheers!

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  • Edvvard•140
    @edvvarrd

    Hello!

    GitHub API doesn't require a key. I just did the same challenge without auth and it worked well. Key might be needed in the case when you want to do specific actions (like make some changes on your repos) or need much more responses from the API, because there are some limits without it. You can check how it works without a key on my profile.

    Except of that, the app looks good. After a quick clicking in it, I would recommend to add 'cursor: pointer' on changing theme button and do some testing with media queries, because it seems to be not working perfectly.

    Have a nice day!

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    visualdennis•8,395
    @visualdenniss

    Hey,

    great job again!

    I don't understand why it requires auth from you, this should simply work without any auth; https://api.github.com/users/visualdenniss I've also just tested it now by entering this link in URL bar in an incognito browser and it returns the data as usual without me having logged in at all.

  • Marvellous Obatale•520
    @MARVELGARR

    i think you can hide the key in a env ... read up on that

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