The course is organized into four parts: Getting Started, The Design Phase, The Build Phase, and The Release Phase.

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Testing APIs

Testing API Exercise

Building API Exercise

Building API Exercise Solution

Securing API Exercise

Securing API Exercise Solution

MockAPI

Account Mock API

Company service Mock API

Challenge-1 Mock API Solution

Postman Mock API

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 describing them using ALPS. For sketching an API, you will learn about Gehry's sketches. You will also cover OpenAPI and SwaggerHub for API mocking. Moreover, the usage of DARRT and NodeJS will be covered for building APIs. You'll finish with learning how to use the Postman for testing APIs and then deploy them using Heroku.

By the end of this course, you will have an in-depth understanding of how to make fully functional efficient APIs from its inception to its deployment.

Design and Build Great Web APIs

Which format gives us the API’s characteristics?

Which format gives us the API’s characteristics?

To ensure that the technology required for the API is available.

To ensure that all the endpoints of the API are working.

To bridge the gap between the API designers and API builders.

To remove ambiguities in API description.

What is the basic purpose of using API description format?

What is the basic purpose of using API description format?

To create visually pleasing diagrams of the API description.

To create starter code for API implementation.

To check for any errors in the API description.

To validate the API description against the functional requirements.

What is one of the major advantages of creating an ALPS description document for an API?

What is one of the major advantages of creating an ALPS description document for an API?

Which group is required for our Onboarding API?

Which group is required for our Onboarding API?

Test your knowledge about describing APIs.

Introduction

Understanding HTTP, REST, and APIs

Modeling APIs

Designing APIs

Describing APIs

Sketching APIs

Prototyping APIs

Building APIs

Testing APIs

Securing APIs

Deploying APIs

Modifying APIs

Some Parting Thoughts

Appendixes

Quiz: Describing APIs