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Design and Build Great Web APIs

Gain insights into designing robust APIs, explore essential tools for design, documentation, testing, and deployment. Delve into ALPS, OpenAPI, Postman, and Heroku for comprehensive API development.

Intermediate

113 Lessons

28h

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into designing robust APIs, explore essential tools for design, documentation, testing, and deployment. Delve into ALPS, OpenAPI, Postman, and Heroku for comprehensive API development.
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Course Overview

At the start of this course, you’ll be introduced to a handful of important practices and principles for designing and building APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. You’ll also acquire skills in a wide range of developer tools, including tools for design, documentation, building, testing, security, and deployment. You'll learn the best practices for modeling an APIs lifecycle using Donald Norman’s action lifecycle. Then, you’ll learn how to use the sequence diagram for designing APIs and describ...Show More
At the start of this course, you’ll be introduced to a handful of important practices and principles for designing and building APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. You’ll also acquire skills in a wide range of developer tools, including tools fo...Show More

What You'll Learn

A working knowledge of HTTP, REST and APIs
Hands-on experience of modeling, designing, and describing APIs
The ability to sketch and prototype APIs
Familiarity with testing and securely deploying APIs
A working knowledge of HTTP, REST and APIs

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Course Content

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Designing APIs

8 Lessons

Enhance your skills in consistent API design, using structured methods, diagrams, and user-focused terminology.

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Describing APIs

7 Lessons

Take a closer look at documenting API designs using ALPS, including practical implementation and version control.

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Securing APIs

7 Lessons

Work your way through identity, access control, encryption, OAuth, and JWT for API security.

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Some Parting Thoughts

2 Lessons

Focus on API design principles, from aligning with business needs to deployment techniques.

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Appendixes

6 Lessons

Master the steps to install essential tools like curl, GitHub, Node.js, Postman, Heroku, and local utilities.

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