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Summary

Adding SMS capabilities to your modern web app or website is one of the quickest and most reliable ways to interact with customers and user bases. There are many things you can do with SMS APIs:Learning a caller’s registered name or carrier.Sending verification codes from a website or web app.Sending SMS texts containing arbitrary content.But adding these SMS features may seem like a daunting task. Don’t worry! It’s actually much easier than it seems. In fact, in this tutorial, we’re going to make an app that shows just how easy it is to use the various SMS APIs on RapidAPI to perform all of these tasks, in only a few easy lines of JavaScript.At the end of this blog post, we’ll have a modern JavaScript app that can:Lookup a phone number’s name using Twilio Name LookupLookup a phone number’s carrier using Twilio Carrier LookupSend a verification code to a phone number using Telesign SMS VerifySend arbitrary text content to a phone number using Quick Easy SMSSend SMS messages with more flexibility and control using Twilio SMS API.