Designing RESTful Web APIs

By Shawn Wildermuth
Are you embarking on creating an API for your website or mobile app? If so, just striking forward with your API could be a mistake. In this course, you will learn how to design an API to meet the demands of your customers.
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(301)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Aug 5, 2019
Duration
2h 6m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
What Is REST?
Course Overview 2m History of Distributed Computed 4m HTTP in a Nutshell 8m HTTP in Action 3m What is REST 2m An Example of a Well Designed API 5m What We've Learned 1m
Designing a RESTful API
Introduction 0m Designing for REST 9m Demo: Using URIs 3m Design Verbs 3m Demo: Using Verbs 5m Idempotency in Action 1m Understanding Idempotency 2m Designing Results 5m Demo: Designing Your Results 3m Formatting Results 3m Demo: Formatting Results 2m Hypermedia 2m What We've Learned 1m
Handling More Complex Scenarios in Your API
Introduction 1m Designing Associations 2m Demo: Associations 3m Designing Paging 2m Demo: Paging 2m Error Handling 2m Demo: Error Handling 3m Designing Caching 4m Demo: Caching with ETags 4m Functional APIs 3m Demo: Functional APIs 2m Asynchronous APIs 1m What We've Learned 1m
Versioning Your API
Introduction 0m Should You Version Your APIs 2m Designing Versioning 5m Demo: Versioning Strategies 2m What We've Learned 1m
Locking Down Your API
Introduction 1m APIs and Security 3m Cross Domain Security 3m Authentication and Authorization 3m Authentication Types 6m Understanding OAuth 4m What We've Learned 1m
Description
Course info
Rating
(301)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Aug 5, 2019
Duration
2h 6m
Description

Too many APIs are just built on an as-needed basis. In this course, Designing RESTful Web APIs, you will design your API to meet your needs before you embark on implementing the service. First, you will explore the design philosophies of creating an API on top of REST without the dogma. Next, you will discover how to design APIs to take URIs, verbs, message bodies, versioning and security into account. Finally, you will examine how creating an API can stand up to the test of time instead of extending your proof of concept into a supported API you can't get rid of. By the end of this course, you will have complete understanding and knowledge to produce useful APIs for your project.

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Shawn Wildermuth
About the author

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early '80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2002, he's also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider.

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Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Shawn Wildermuth, and welcome to my course Designing RESTful Web APIs. I'm an author, a trainer, and a 15 time Microsoft MVP. Are you embarking on creating an API for your website or mobile app? If so, just striking forward with an API could be a mistake. In this course I will show you how designing an API first is crucial to a solid, built to last API with REST. Some of the major topics that we'll cover include understanding the fundamentals of both HTTP and REST, designing the entire API including its URIs, verb usage, message bodies, associations, paging, error handling, and caching. I'll explain why versioning is so important to a successful API project. And finally, I'll talk about different security considerations for locking down your API. By the end of this course, you'll take designing an API seriously and be successful in creating great APIs. This course is a great beginning to get you familiar with REST and HTTP, but also going to help you design APIs before you implement them in real world. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn how to design RESTful APIs with the Designing RESTful Web APIs course here at Pluralsight.

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