Udemy
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
Subscribe
Turn what you know into an opportunity and reach millions around the world.
Learn More
Your cart is empty.
Keep shopping
Writing Beautiful RESTful APIs
Rating: 4.1 out of 5(212 ratings)
6,339 students

Writing Beautiful RESTful APIs

A simplified guide to understanding RESTful API design
Created byEthan Ballinger
Last updated 11/2017
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Know a basic understanding of how RESTful APIs work
  • Know best practices for designing a set of RESTful APIs
  • Know how to leverage the HTTP protocol for RESTful APIs
  • Know how to deal with advanced concepts like pagination, search, and authentication and how they pertain to RESTful APIs

Course content

3 sections • 10 lectures • 58m total length

  • Overview5:12

    Explore what a restful API is, including resources, representations, and operations, and learn industry best practices for design, versioning, authentication, error handling, pagination, and formats like JSON and XML.

  • All About REST - Part 19:40

    Explore representational state transfer concepts, including client–server exchanges, resources, request parts, response parts, and the main HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.

  • All About REST - Part 210:31

    Explore REST operations like GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and OPTIONS, and how they manage resources safely, including status codes from 200 to 500 and the nouns over verbs principle.

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of web based services
  • Basic understanding of how web systems communicate with each other

Description

RESTful APIs are part of our everyday life and most may not even know it. Because most of the design and implementation of these APIs is left up to developers and architects, there are a wide array of opinions and ideas on how things should work. This can create a good deal of confusion. 

Writing Beautiful RESTful APIs provides a fundamental overview of REST, best practices for design, and discusses several advanced topics like pagination, search, and authentication. 

This course is meant for beginners to API design, but it is also a good refresher for those who are familiar to API design or are hoping to gain a deeper understanding of advanced topics. 

By the end of the course, you will understand the fundamentals of REST and you'll be able to start designing your APIs to be "beautiful APIs".

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for individuals who are interested in learning more about REST
  • This course is for individuals who are interested in learning more about RESTful APIs
  • This course is for individuals who are interested in learning more about RESTful API design and best practices

Report abuse