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.
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Principles of REST architecture
Build a basic API
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PM
Reviewed on Jun 18, 2023
It was a great course but an unexpected difficulty bump from the previous courses in the series.
GW
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.
HH
Reviewed on Jul 10, 2025
Great stuff!
