Develop the Integration with DEV
Explore how to develop an integration between Firebase Functions and the DEV community API to automate blog publishing. Understand how to create posts as drafts using the API, handle authentication with environment variables, and utilize TypeScript and got for HTTP requests. This lesson enables you to extend event-driven cloud apps by connecting with external services like DEV.
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DEV
First things first, what is DEV? Their About DEV page states:
"DEV is a community of software developers getting together to help one another out."
It’s a place where anyone can create an account and share their blog posts, engage in discussions, or simply tag along to see what’s going on in the developer community. As a registered user, you can write blog posts in Markdown on their website. Alternatively, they provide a REST API. The API provides a number of endpoints, and the one we are interested in is called “Create a new article”.
Note: If you want to publish your blog post to another service and they offer an API, ...