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REST API Development
Beginner Web Development

REST API Development

Learn to design and build REST APIs from zero, the backbone of every modern app, website, and mobile product. Understand how HTTP really works (methods, status codes, headers), design clean endpoints around resources, exchange data with JSON, and build full CRUD operations that create, read, update, and delete data. Then secure your API with keys, tokens, and HTTPS. No backend experience required, by the end you can design, build, and protect a real REST API with confidence.

5 modules 10 lessons 5 h 250 questions
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Course content

1 HTTP & REST Fundamentals 2 lessons · 15 min
1 What Is a REST API? 7:05 2 HTTP Methods & Status Codes 7:29
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2 Designing Endpoints & Resources 2 lessons · 15 min
3 Designing Resource URLs 7:08 4 Filtering, Sorting & Pagination 7:34
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3 Working with JSON & Data 2 lessons · 14 min
5 Working with JSON Bodies 7:01 6 Designing Good Error Responses 7:18
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4 CRUD Operations 2 lessons · 15 min
7 Create and Read: POST and GET 7:16 8 Update and Delete: PUT, PATCH, DELETE 7:19
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5 Auth & Security Basics 2 lessons · 15 min
9 Authentication with Tokens 6:59 10 Securing Your API 7:39
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Fundamentals Let HTTP Methods Carry the Verb The method says what to do, the URL says where Fundamentals Status Codes Come in Families The first digit tells you the whole story Fundamentals REST Servers Have No Memory Every request must stand on its own Fundamentals Idempotent Means Safe to Retry Same request, same result, every time