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“The Complete Guide to Build RESTful API Application” is an extensive, comprehensive resource that equips both beginners and experienced developers with the knowledge and tools necessary to create robust and efficient RESTful API applications. This guide is meticulously designed to offer a step-by-step approach, ensuring a thorough understanding of RESTful principles and their practical implementation.
Starting with foundational concepts, this guide dives into the core principles of RESTful architecture, elucidating how REST APIs function, their benefits, and their significance in modern web development. It navigates through HTTP methods, status codes, and best practices for designing clear and intuitive API endpoints.
As the journey progresses, this guide explores the essential tools and frameworks required to develop RESTful APIs, covering a range of programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, or Ruby. It delves into popular frameworks like Express.js, Flask, Django, and Spring Boot, providing hands-on tutorials, code examples, and real-world scenarios to reinforce learning.
Moreover, this comprehensive resource addresses crucial aspects of API security, authentication, and data validation, ensuring that developers gain a deep understanding of securing their applications against common vulnerabilities.
Furthermore, it doesn’t solely focus on the technical aspects; it also emphasizes the importance of creating APIs that are user-friendly and scalable, emphasizing documentation practices, versioning strategies, and performance optimization techniques.
The guide concludes by addressing advanced topics such as API testing, deployment strategies, and monitoring, empowering developers to not only build but also maintain and scale their RESTful APIs effectively.
With its systematic approach, clear explanations, and hands-on examples, “The Complete Guide to Build RESTful API Application” serves as an indispensable resource for anyone looking to master the art of designing, developing, and deploying RESTful APIs that meet industry standards and cater to diverse application requirements.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 76 Lessons
- 20 Hours
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- Introduction to RESTful APIs76
- 1.1What is an API? What is REST?
- 1.2REST vs SOAP
- 1.3REST principles: Resources, HTTP verbs, statelessness
- 1.4API use cases in modern applications
- 1.5Tools overview: Postman, Swagger, VS Code
- 1.6Test a public REST API using Postman
- 1.7Setting Up the Environment
- 1.8Installing Node.js / Python (choose backend stack)
- 1.9Setting up Express.js (Node.js) or Flask (Python)
- 1.10Project structure and folder organization
- 1.11Installing essential packages
- 1.12Hello World API
- 1.13Create and test a basic GET endpoint
- 1.14Core CRUD Operations
- 1.15Defining resources (e.g., users, products, posts)
- 1.16Implementing endpoints:
- 1.17GET /items
- 1.18GET /items/:id
- 1.19POST /items
- 1.20PUT /items/:id
- 1.21DELETE /items/:id
- 1.22Status codes & responses
- 1.23Error handling and validation
- 1.24Build a CRUD API for a sample app (e.g., To-Do App)
- 1.25Database Integration
- 1.26Introduction to databases (SQL vs NoSQL)
- 1.27Connecting API with MongoDB (Mongoose) or PostgreSQL (Sequelize)
- 1.28Data modeling basics
- 1.29Performing CRUD operations on DB
- 1.30Connect and persist data with MongoDB Atlas or local DB
- 1.31Middleware, Authentication & Authorization
- 1.32Express middleware / Flask middleware
- 1.33Authentication methods: API Key, JWT
- 1.34User signup & login endpoints
- 1.35Role-based access control (RBAC)
- 1.36Protecting private routes
- 1.37Add authentication to the To-Do API
- 1.38API Documentation & Testing
- 1.39Swagger/OpenAPI documentation
- 1.40Writing good API specs
- 1.41Testing APIs with Postman
- 1.42Automating tests (Jest + Supertest or Pytest)
- 1.43Mock data for testing
- 1.44Document your To-Do API using Swagger
- 1.45Error Handling, Logging & Best Practices
- 1.46Standard error formats (JSON errors)
- 1.47Using try-catch or middleware for error handling
- 1.48Logging with Winston / Loguru
- 1.49API versioning
- 1.50Rate limiting & throttling
- 1.51Common REST anti-patterns
- 1.52Add centralized error handler and logging to project
- 1.53Deployment & Monitoring
- 1.54Preparing for production (env variables, security headers)
- 1.55Deploying to cloud (Render, Railway, or Heroku)
- 1.56Setting up CI/CD basics
- 1.57Monitoring and uptime alerts (UptimeRobot, Log monitoring)
- 1.58Deploy your API live and test endpoints
- 1.59Final Project
- 1.60Final Project: Build & Deploy a Full RESTful API Application Project Options (Choose One):
- 1.61Blogging Platform API
- 1.62Expense Tracker API
- 1.63Job Listing API
- 1.64Inventory Management API
- 1.65CRUD endpoints
- 1.66User authentication
- 1.67Database integration
- 1.68Swagger documentation
- 1.69Deployment to cloud
- 1.70Code review
- 1.71API testing
- 1.72Live endpoint submission
- 1.73Downloadable code templates
- 1.74Weekly mini challenges
- 1.75Interview prep: REST API questions
- 1.76Certificate of Completion