picsum-photos VS json-server

Lorem Picsum is a free picture placeholder service that can be used on websites, apps, or anywhere a placeholder image is needed. It provides a simple API that can obtain random images through HTTP requests, and can also specify specific image sizes and other parameters. Lorem Picsum also provides a website where pictures can be browsed and downloaded. These images are uploaded by photographers from the Unsplash community and are free for personal and commercial use. URL: https://picsum.photos/

export const loader = async () => { const response = await fetch('https://picsum.photos/200/300'); const blob = await response.blob(); return new Response(blob, { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'image/jpeg', }, }); };

Lorem Picsum provides a convenient source of high-quality placeholder images, ideal for design and development projects. It's super simple to use. Just add your desired image size (width & height) after the URL (https://picsum.photos/200/300), and you'll get a random image. It's perfect for when building and testing the interface of your project.

pull random images from picsum

Lorem Picsum provides random placeholder images, adding visual appeal to your designs.

Something I'm thinking is to put a webpage in the background url that gives a random image (like what picsum.photos does but with a collection of my choice).

this is what you are looking for --> https://picsum.photos/

Lorem picsum: https://picsum.photos/

JSON Server

Our backend will be little more than a two-way translation layer between the database and the user interface (UI). Later in this post we will identify other responsibilities of a backend but our implementation will be kept simple to demonstrate the fundamental machinery and concepts. It is worth noting the backend comes in two parts, web server and application server. Both json-server and Express are able to facilitate these roles from the same URL. This is very useful for our tutorial because we do not have to configure the server to manage Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). It is quite typical for production systems to separate these server roles for all sorts of good reasons but for now it would just create an additional complication.

JSON-Server creates fake REST API with a minimum amount of configuration, it provides a simple way to create mock RESTful APIs and easily define the required endpoints, allows easy definition of the data schema in a JSON file and can serve as a reference for each figure in the project.

I thought about usingJson Server (hosting the repo with the words on Github to begin with), Googlesheets, or maybe Firestore (i would prefer not to use it ,to avoid extra costs just in case it gets a reasonable amount of users). It isnt a big app so i just want a simple solution for storing the words and fetching them.

There is https://github.com/typicode/json-server that is really useful for that matter

JSON server https://github.com/typicode/json-server