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Understanding APIs and RESTful APIs Crash Course
Understanding APIs and RESTful APIs Crash Course

Understanding APIs and RESTful APIs Crash Course: Discover what APIs and RESTful APIs are and how they work

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  • Get to grips with application program interfaces (APIs) and RESTful APIs and understand how they work
  • Explore the five main request methods - GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE
  • Learn the concept of CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations and HTTP status codes

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This course will help you understand what APIs and RESTful APIs are and how they work. It is designed in such a way that you will learn everything you need without feeling overwhelmed. APIs and RESTful APIs come across as difficult or advanced subjects, but they are just two computers communicating with each other and exchanging commands and data. The videos will take you through several easy-to-remember metaphors so that you can grasp APIs without getting unnerved. Because APIs can be written using different programming languages, this course will not include any coding exercises apart from a JavaScript demo. By the end of this course, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of how APIs work and how computers communicate with each other. You’ll also become familiar with RESTful APIs, which make use of the HTTP protocol. All the codes and supporting files for this course are available at- https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Understanding-APIs-and-RESTful-APIs-Crash-Course

Who is this book for?

This course is for junior web developers and non-coders who want to learn about inter-computer communications.

What you will learn

  • Get the hang of APIs and RESTful APIs and how they work
  • Grasp how computers communicate with each other
  • Understand the concept of JSON
  • Work with HTTP requests and responses

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Publication date : Apr 27, 2020
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ISBN-13 : 9781800564121
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Introduction
What is an API?
Understanding APIs and RESTful APIs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The simplest way to think about an API (the metaphor)
A real life use case
What programming languages can we use?
Introduction to RESTful APIs
Introduction to JSON
A real JavaScript API example
GET requests
POST requests
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PUT/PATCH requests
Consuming APIs (how to use them)
Requests and responses
Common status codes
API security
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Informative, short, very much suitable as an entry level course for beginners as me. A metaphor of an API as restaurant (as the Internet) and a client-waiter-chef (as a client-API-server) relationship very easy to memorize. All do its job!
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Kalob Taulien is a professional web developer who has been developing websites and working with start-ups since 1999. Since many years, he has been writing codes in Python and Django. He is in the core Wagtail CMS team and one of the core leaders in Wagtail-based education. The passion to learn and to share his knowledge by teaching and helping others is something that drives him constantly. His ability to turn complex programming concepts into easy-to-understand bits of knowledge has been called his 'superpower'. Throughout the years, he has built numerous websites. He even provides one-on-one coaching and start-up consulting to new organizations.
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