1# Use GPT to generate vals on your account!
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3Describe the val that you need, call this function, and you'll get a new val on your workspace generated by OpenAI's API!
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5First, ensure you have a [Val Town API Token](https://www.val.town/settings/api), then call `@andreterron.createGeneratedVal({...})` like this [example](https://www.val.town/v/andreterron.untitled_tomatoKiwi):
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1# Are.na API
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3Example of using the [are.na](https://dev.are.na/documentation/channels#Block43472) API to get the contents of an Are.na board - specifically my fun board that showcases websites with that "glossy black style."
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5All you need is [fetch](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API) to make this happen!
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7Migrated from folder: API_Examples/arenaApiExample
1# ky
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3The [ky module](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ky) is a nice abstraction around the [fetch API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API), which is easily compatible with Deno. It's by the same creator as [got](https://npmjs.com/got), which more explicitly targets Node.js.
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5Most of the time, the `fetch` method is all you need! But in a pinch, you can use `ky` to make things a little fancier.
1# Val Town API: unauthenticated eval
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3This val runs a val by using the [Val Town API](https://docs.val.town/api/reference) and returns the result of its evaluation.
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5Migrated from folder: Val_Town_API/evaluationFromValExample
1# Val Town API: Find a val by handle and name
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3This val fetches itself via the [Val Town API](https://docs.val.town/api/reference)! Weird, right?
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5Migrated from folder: Val_Town_API/valTownApiExampleVal
1# Val Town API: Find a user by their handle
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3This demonstrates how to use the [Val Town API](https://docs.val.town/api/reference) to find a user.
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1# Val Town API Search
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3This demonstrates how to use the [Val Town API](https://docs.val.town/api/reference) to search for vals that mention "lodash".
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1# Creating a SHA-256 hash of a string
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3This example shows how you can hash a string using SHA-256 without using any NPM modules – just web standards! Adapted from an [example on MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypto/digest).
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1# lit
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3[Lit](https://lit.dev/docs/ssr/server-usage/) is kind of like Google's answer to React: it's a little more reliant on browser APIs like custom elements and the shadow DOM, a little less 'magic', like using JSX.
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5This is an example of using Lit and rendering it straight to a string, which is something that's recently popular. It works pretty well, right off the bat: Lit provides nice ESM modules and a pretty smooth workflow!
3[QS](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/) is a pretty old module that you probably shouldn't use but it's still pretty heavily used.
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5In the very very early days there wasn't a built-in way in JavaScript to parse querystrings. So QS was born. But then, Node.js added a `querystring` module built-in. Then, JavaScript introduced [URLSearchParams](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams), which you should use whenever you want to parse or generate query strings.
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