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Victor Maina @jvicmaina

Integrating WakaTime API With React For Coding Stats Visualization

Get your WakaTime API key & fetch coding stats for past week using `/users/current/stats/last_7_days` endpoint. Display data in React app with Chart.js.

Introduction

Open-source APIs provide a great way to integrate useful data into your projects. WakaTime is one such API that helps developers track their coding activity across different projects and languages. In this article, we'll explore how to fetch coding stats from WakaTime and use them in a React application to visualize coding time using Chart.js.

  
  
  Step 1: Get Your WakaTime API Key

To access WakaTime's API, you need an API key. Follow these steps to get it:

Go to WakaTime.
Sign in and navigate to your Account Settings.
Under API Key, copy the key.

  
  
  Step 2: Fetch Dat...