Where can I host a project where I can make POST requests

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Hello,

As part of building up my list of projects, I’m trying to make a meme generator where I will need to make a POST request to an external API in order to retrieve the final version of the meme in the form of a url for the user to be able save/download it.

As far as I know, Github and other platforms do not allow POST requests as they are static hosts. However I am not sending a POST request to my own code - it’s to a third party API. Is that allowed on these platforms? I’ve tried Googling but no luck.

Grateful for any help :slight_smile:

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If it’s just the client making a POST request to an external API I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. Did you test it? That should be the first step.

As long as you are not trying to run a backend on a static host site you should be fine. Calls to external APIs should work.

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Github pages does not actually care what your app does. Its the user’s browser that usually cares, usually in the form of a CORS error.

It depends on the API your calling. There are public API’s that will allow you to make requests from the client-side regardless of your origin. If an API is setup for client-side access, you shouldn’t run into these CORS errors. However if the API is not setup for client-side access then not only would you run into CORS errors, you could be leaking your sensitive API token (!)

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@lasjorg I tested it now - took me 3-4 hours to do so. And it does work :smile:
Though it took me 3-4 hours to build a simple input field, generate the meme and send it off. Why is code so long!?! :weary:

@bradtaniguchi It’s a public endpoint, anyone can access it even without any API key/tokens. I have dealt with CORS before - very annoying.

Thank you so much for your help :smiley:

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Yea one of the first “web development” projects I had to work with was CORS related. Very annoying haha

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