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title: InfluxDB API client library starter
seotitle: Starter tutorial for InfluxDB API client libraries
description: Follow step-by-step tutorials to build an IoT dashboard with API client libraries in your favorite framework or language.
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Follow step-by-step tutorials to build an Internet-of-Things (IoT) application with InfluxData client libraries and your favorite framework or language.
InfluxData and the user community maintain client libraries for developers who want to take advantage of:

- Idioms for InfluxDB requests, responses, and errors.
- Common patterns in a familiar programming language.
- Faster development and less boilerplate code.

These tutorials walk through using the InfluxDB API and
client libraries to build a modern application as you learn the following:

- InfluxDB core concepts.
- How the application interacts with devices and InfluxDB.
- How to authenticate apps and devices to the API.
- How to install a client library.
- How to write and query data in InfluxDB.
- How to use the InfluxData UI libraries to format data and create visualizations.

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