How to Call Third-party API Integration
Understand how to connect your Meteor and React application to external services by calling third-party APIs. Learn to use Meteor's fetch package to retrieve data asynchronously, handle JSON responses, and update React state based on API results through practical examples.
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Applications occasionally need to communicate with the outside world to retrieve or process data. Third-party API refers to processing or sending data to a server we don’t own or control. We might want to display weather information in our application. To do so, we’ll have to connect to a service that provides that functionality by integrating our application to call that service.
Integrating with third-party services requires that we know the url of the service we want to connect to. Some services require that we provide an API key before connecting and interacting with the service. The following is an API call for the weather in a city: