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This course will begin our journey into Application Programming Interface(API) Development with Laravel.  In this course, we will be going over topics like:
- Concept of Application Programming Interface (API)  and its benefits, 
- Representational State Transfer (REST) Architecture and its constraints, 
- JSON Web Token (JWT) for authentication, 
- best practices for designing a RESTful API, and much more.

We will be putting this knowledge into practical use by building a Question & Answer Restful API Application.

Application Features

- Users can signup and sign in.
- Users can reset their passwords.
- Authenticated users can post a question.
- Authenticated users can answer a question.
- The question owner can delete his question.
- Answer owner can delete his answer.

This course requires an understanding of PHP and a basic understanding of the Laravel framework. 

By the end of this course, we will be able to begin our journey in creating RESTful APIs in Laravel.

Building a Question & Answer RESTful API Application

## Introduction

API is a set of functions, definitions, and protocols that allows communications between two applications to access data or functionality in a standardized way. Simply put, an API is a messenger that takes a request from one application, passes it to another application, and returns the response.

Think of an API as a waiter in a restaurant. You are sitting at the table and have gone through the menu and decided on what to order. How do you communicate your order to the kitchen and get your meal back to your table? That’s where the waiter (API) comes in. The waiter is the messenger (API) that takes your (application) order (request) to the kitchen (application) and delivers the meal (response) back to you.

# Introduction

API is a set of functions, definitions, and protocols that allows communications between two applications to access data or functionality in a standardized way. Simply put, an API is a messenger that takes a request from one application, passes it to another application, and returns the response.

Learn about API definition, its types, and its importance.


What Is an API?

Learn about API definition, its types, and its importance.

Getting Started

Introduction to API Assessment

Quick Refresher

Authentication

Create Question Endpoints

Create Answer Endpoints

Tags

Database Seeding

Password Reset

Conclusion

What is an Application Programming Interface (API)?

Introduction