Free

Designing RESTful APIs

Course

Build and secure a web server with a RESTful Developer-Friendly API that developers will love to use.

Last Updated March 7, 2022

Prerequisites:

No experience required

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

What's and Why's of APIs

Discover the foundation of Web APIs, the common systems for passing and updating information to web applications.

Lesson 2

Accessing Published APIs

Practice gathering and reading information from web APIs that already live on the internet.

Lesson 3

Creating your own API Endpoints

Begin creating your own API endpoints and learn to serialize your data to package it up for transfer across the web using HTTP.

Lesson 4

Securing your API

Control access to your APIs by limiting who can access the resources behind them and ensuring that only authorized users can read and modify data.

Lesson 5

Writing Developer-Friendly APIs

Customize your APIs to be usable and approachable by the developers who will consume them.

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Lorenzo Brown

Instructor

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