Discovery and Twitter API v2

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Shields.io

We've all seen those nice little badges or shields that show up in Open Source project README files, to signal everything from whether the build is passing, to what license the code is under, or what operating systems the code targets. Many of these are provided by services such as Shields.io or Badgen which generate similar styles of image that can serve as quick visual guides to what features the project supports.

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JSON Server

In order to plug this in to the Shields.io service, all we really need is a simple way to serve up these JSON stanzas when the URL is used. There's a very nice Node.js module to do something like this: json-server, with a tagline:.

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Bulma

Well, that's convenient! I spun up a Twbadges, a quick app on Glitch which acts as a REST API - the data is served from a simple JSON file, and I used a couple of options to json-server to switch off the write functionality (it can support full CRUD operations if required). After that, I created a simple web page to showcase the badges using the Bulma CSS framework, and the app is ready to go! I've continued to quietly tinker with the code as a learning exercise (I haven't used Bulma before, also, I added twemoji to the web page, and messed with the layout), but it's simple and it does the job - pick from one of the available badges, and use them in your README files to show off your support of the latest Twitter developer features! You can also apply Shields.io style parameters if you want to use a different look-and-feel.

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