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.
APIs
APIs
This course is part of Meta Back-End Developer Professional Certificate
Instructor: Taught by Meta Staff
Sponsored by Southeastern University
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API development
Principles of REST architecture
Build a basic API
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There are 4 modules in this course
Get to know RESTful API development.
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15 videos15 readings1 quiz4 assignments1 discussion prompt1 ungraded lab
Use the Django REST framework to create APIs efficiently, then learn to serialize your database models and convert, validate and render data.
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12 videos8 readings4 assignments2 ungraded labs
Control access to your APIs, and put systems in place to ensure you maintain their health.
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11 videos9 readings4 assignments1 ungraded lab
Practice and reflect on the skills you learned in this course.
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4 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review2 discussion prompts
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