plutus-starter VS openapi

This is pretty bad advice - you might not need a node to write dapps, but you'll sure as hell want a local Plutus dev environment for the smoothest experience. Take it from someone with an M1 - the setup process is a pain, compile times are poor, and it'll be difficult to get your language server up and running for proper syntax highlighting. Some repos like https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-starter don't seem to work even when Nix is configured to run it on Rosetta 2. Like the other commenter, I've resigned myself to ssh tunneling into a development Linux NUC, which has its own annoyances.

This what you wanted? https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-starter

I love how the Cardano devs are making Plutus Dev Env as easy as possible to install and use. Just install Docker on your OS and:

Feel free to check the Cardano starter example project on Github

have a look https://docs.blockfrost.io ! each call has details of what it returns

You can use blockfrost API to do that by looking up the pool metadata. https://docs.blockfrost.io/

But Blockfrost does have a Python API that you could mess around with. There’s still plenty of cool stuff you can do with it.

https://blockfrost.io/ These guys are 3rd party developers who help with IFPS storages and APIs. https://docs.blockfrost.io/ Their docs as well.

https://docs.blockfrost.io/#tag/Cardano-Transactions/paths/~1tx~1submit/post

We are requesting funds from the community for the first time - to build open-source SDKs on top of the API specification, which, too, is open-source. This way, anyone can develop a backend on top of the specification if they don't trust our implementation or are worried about vendor lock-in.

We are going to open source our backend layer, so you can run your own if you do not trust us. The API specification itself is open, so you can just build your own backend too.