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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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

**(Fill in the blank.)** Design helps us bring ________ to our API program.

(Fill in the blank.) Design helps us bring ________ to our API program.

What is the key to creating APIs that do a good job of solving a problem?

What is the key to creating APIs that do a good job of solving a problem?

Which API design method step includes converting notes on workflow and internal cycles into a visual representation that people can understand?


Which API design method step includes converting notes on workflow and internal cycles into a visual representation that people can understand?

graphical representation of the design method

**(Fill in the blank.)** The primary focus when designing an API method should be on ________ so that when others use our API, the implementation details look familiar to them based on past experience.


(Fill in the blank.) The primary focus when designing an API method should be on ________ so that when others use our API, the implementation details look familiar to them based on past experience.

 Banking Interoperability Resources Network (BIRN)

Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN)

Industry Standards for Banking Network (ISBN)

**(Fill in the blank.)** When normalizing the identifiers with respect to the API descriptors, the banking sector has established a set of information standards known as the ________.


(Fill in the blank.) When normalizing the identifiers with respect to the API descriptors, the banking sector has established a set of information standards known as the ________.

Test your knowledge about designing 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: Designing APIs