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APIs

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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2 weeks at 10 hours a week

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

375 reviews

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule

2 weeks at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

92%

Most learners liked this course

What you'll learn

API development
Principles of REST architecture
Build a basic API

Skills you'll gain

Tools you'll learn

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Assessments

14 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

Delve deeper into the processes and concepts behind APIs and their infrastructure. Explore the key concepts that underpin API development and the principles of representational state transfer architectural style (REST) architecture. Build basic API and REST data backbones for web apps using Django. Discover emerging API technology and practice other ways to build and work with APIs. Finally, you will test, optimize and develop documentation for an API.

Get to know RESTful API development.

What's included

15 videos15 readings5 assignments1 discussion prompt1 ungraded lab

15 videos Total 79 minutes

Introduction to the course 4 minutes
How are APIs used in the real world? 4 minutes
What you know about HTTP 6 minutes
RESTfulness 8 minutes
Naming conventions 8 minutes
Essential tools for API development 6 minutes
Create a Django Project using pipenv 3 minutes
REST best practices 6 minutes
Security and authentication in REST API 5 minutes
Access control 4 minutes
Book List API project 6 minutes
Organizing an API project 5 minutes
Debugging your API 5 minutes
Browser tools and extensions for API development 3 minutes
Module summary: REST APIs 5 minutes

15 readings Total 163 minutes

Course syllabus 4 minutes
Working with labs and exercises in this course 10 minutes
How to be successful in this course 10 minutes
HTTP methods, status codes and response types 8 minutes
Good routes versus bad routes 6 minutes
Installing VS Code 10 minutes
Setting up tools and environment 30 minutes
Optional: Creating a Django project (steps and code) 10 minutes
Exercise: Know your tools 30 minutes
Additional resources 5 minutes
Authentication versus authorization 7 minutes
Consequences of a poorly designed API project 7 minutes
XML and JSON response types 5 minutes
Solution: Your first API 11 minutes
Mock APIs 10 minutes

5 assignments Total 78 minutes

Self review: Know your tools 9 minutes
Knowledge Check: Introduction to APIs 15 minutes
Knowledge check: Principles of API development 15 minutes
Self review: Your first API 9 minutes
Module quiz: REST APIs 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

What do you hope to learn? 10 minutes

1 ungraded lab Total 60 minutes

Exercise: Your first API 60 minutes

Use the Django REST framework to create APIs efficiently, then learn to serialize your database models and convert, validate and render data.

What's included

12 videos8 readings4 assignments2 ungraded labs

12 videos Total 58 minutes

What is the Django REST framework (DRF)? 5 minutes
Installing and setting up DRF 6 minutes
Better API view with decorators 4 minutes
Function and class-based views 6 minutes
Django debug toolbar 5 minutes
Restaurant menu API project with DRF 6 minutes
Serializers 4 minutes
Model serializers 3 minutes
Relationship serializers 3 minutes
Deserialization and validation 5 minutes
Renderers 6 minutes
Module summary: Django REST framework 5 minutes

8 readings Total 121 minutes

Different types of routing in DRF 15 minutes
Generic views and ViewSets in DRF 17 minutes
Solution: Convert booklist API project to DRF 30 minutes
Additional resources 5 minutes
Other types of serializers in DRF 17 minutes
Different types of renderers 17 minutes
Solution: Restaurant menu API using serialization 15 minutes
Additional resources 5 minutes

4 assignments Total 63 minutes

Self review: Convert booklist API project to DRF 9 minutes
Knowledge check: Introduction to DRF 15 minutes
Self review: Restaurant menu API using serialization 9 minutes
Module quiz: Django REST framework 30 minutes

2 ungraded labs Total 120 minutes

Convert booklist API project to DRF 60 minutes
Exercise: Restaurant menu API using serialization 60 minutes

Control access to your APIs, and put systems in place to ensure you maintain their health.

What's included

11 videos9 readings4 assignments1 ungraded lab

11 videos Total 57 minutes

Filtering and searching 7 minutes
Ordering 4 minutes
Pagination 4 minutes
Caching 5 minutes
Token-based authentication in DRF 7 minutes
User roles 4 minutes
Setting up API throttling 6 minutes
Introduction to Djoser library for better authentication 5 minutes
Registration and authentication endpoints with JWT 7 minutes
User account management 5 minutes
Module summary: Securing an API in Django REST framework 3 minutes

9 readings Total 148 minutes

Importance of data validation 18 minutes
Data sanitization 15 minutes
More on filtering and pagination 15 minutes
Solution: Restaurant menu API - filtering, ordering and searching 30 minutes
Additional resources 5 minutes
API throttling for class-based views 15 minutes
Exercise: User account management 30 minutes
Solution: User account management 15 minutes
Additional resources 5 minutes

4 assignments Total 63 minutes

Self review: Restaurant menu API - filtering, ordering and searching 9 minutes
Knowledge check: Essential API tasks 15 minutes
Self review: User account management 9 minutes
Module quiz: Securing an API in Django REST framework 30 minutes

1 ungraded lab Total 60 minutes

Exercise: Restaurant menu API - filtering, ordering 60 minutes

Practice and reflect on the skills you learned in this course.

What's included

4 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review2 discussion prompts

4 videos Total 13 minutes

Course recap: APIs 3 minutes
Project introduction 3 minutes
Creating models 4 minutes
Course wrap up 2 minutes

4 readings Total 21 minutes

About the final assessment 3 minutes
Project structure and API routes 7 minutes
Peer-review solution 10 minutes
Next steps 1 minute

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Final graded quiz: APIs 30 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Little Lemon API project 60 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 20 minutes

What challenges did you encounter when building your restaurant API? 10 minutes
Reflect on learning 10 minutes

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Reviewed on Jun 18, 2023

It was a great course but an unexpected difficulty bump from the previous courses in the series.

Reviewed on Aug 13, 2023

The course would be better if the final project is delivered in a more organized way. At lease make the checked API endpoints be consistent.

Reviewed on Jul 10, 2025

Great stuff!

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