APIs

APIs

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

383 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

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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 videosTotal 79 minutes

Introduction to the course4 minutes
How are APIs used in the real world?4 minutes
What you know about HTTP6 minutes
RESTfulness8 minutes
Naming conventions8 minutes
Essential tools for API development6 minutes
Create a Django Project using pipenv3 minutes
REST best practices6 minutes
Security and authentication in REST API5 minutes
Access control4 minutes
Book List API project6 minutes
Organizing an API project5 minutes
Debugging your API5 minutes
Browser tools and extensions for API development3 minutes
Module summary: REST APIs5 minutes

15 readingsTotal 163 minutes

Course syllabus4 minutes
Working with labs and exercises in this course10 minutes
How to be successful in this course10 minutes
HTTP methods, status codes and response types8 minutes
Good routes versus bad routes6 minutes
Installing VS Code10 minutes
Setting up tools and environment30 minutes
Optional: Creating a Django project (steps and code)10 minutes
Exercise: Know your tools30 minutes
Additional resources5 minutes
Authentication versus authorization7 minutes
Consequences of a poorly designed API project7 minutes
XML and JSON response types5 minutes
Solution: Your first API11 minutes
Mock APIs10 minutes

5 assignmentsTotal 78 minutes

Module quiz: REST APIs 30 minutes
Self review: Know your tools9 minutes
Knowledge Check: Introduction to APIs 15 minutes
Knowledge check: Principles of API development15 minutes
Self review: Your first API9 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

What do you hope to learn?10 minutes

1 ungraded labTotal 60 minutes

Exercise: Your first API60 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 videosTotal 58 minutes

What is the Django REST framework (DRF)?5 minutes
Installing and setting up DRF6 minutes
Better API view with decorators4 minutes
Function and class-based views6 minutes
Django debug toolbar5 minutes
Restaurant menu API project with DRF6 minutes
Serializers4 minutes
Model serializers3 minutes
Relationship serializers3 minutes
Deserialization and validation5 minutes
Renderers6 minutes
Module summary: Django REST framework5 minutes

8 readingsTotal 121 minutes

Different types of routing in DRF15 minutes
Generic views and ViewSets in DRF17 minutes
Solution: Convert booklist API project to DRF30 minutes
Additional resources5 minutes
Other types of serializers in DRF17 minutes
Different types of renderers17 minutes
Solution: Restaurant menu API using serialization15 minutes
Additional resources5 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 63 minutes

Module quiz: Django REST framework30 minutes
Self review: Convert booklist API project to DRF9 minutes
Knowledge check: Introduction to DRF15 minutes
Self review: Restaurant menu API using serialization9 minutes

2 ungraded labsTotal 120 minutes

Convert booklist API project to DRF60 minutes
Exercise: Restaurant menu API using serialization60 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 videosTotal 57 minutes

Filtering and searching7 minutes
Ordering4 minutes
Pagination4 minutes
Caching5 minutes
Token-based authentication in DRF7 minutes
User roles4 minutes
Setting up API throttling6 minutes
Introduction to Djoser library for better authentication5 minutes
Registration and authentication endpoints with JWT7 minutes
User account management5 minutes
Module summary: Securing an API in Django REST framework3 minutes

9 readingsTotal 148 minutes

Importance of data validation18 minutes
Data sanitization15 minutes
More on filtering and pagination15 minutes
Solution: Restaurant menu API - filtering, ordering and searching30 minutes
Additional resources5 minutes
API throttling for class-based views15 minutes
Exercise: User account management30 minutes
Solution: User account management15 minutes
Additional resources5 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 63 minutes

Module quiz: Securing an API in Django REST framework30 minutes
Self review: Restaurant menu API - filtering, ordering and searching9 minutes
Knowledge check: Essential API tasks15 minutes
Self review: User account management9 minutes

1 ungraded labTotal 60 minutes

Exercise: Restaurant menu API - filtering, ordering60 minutes

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

What's included

4 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review2 discussion prompts

4 videosTotal 13 minutes

Course recap: APIs3 minutes
Project introduction3 minutes
Creating models4 minutes
Course wrap up2 minutes

4 readingsTotal 21 minutes

About the final assessment3 minutes
Project structure and API routes7 minutes
Peer-review solution10 minutes
Next steps1 minute

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Final graded quiz: APIs30 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 60 minutes

Little Lemon API project60 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 20 minutes

What challenges did you encounter when building your restaurant API?10 minutes
Reflect on learning10 minutes

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Reviewed on Jul 11, 2025

Great stuff!

Reviewed on Apr 25, 2023

The content is perfect and the assignments also good, the only problem so far with meta courses that some of the solutions and questions are written wong, but overall a great experience.

Reviewed on Jul 28, 2024

While I think the course is perfect for the beginner, I think image, audio or order media handling should be included in the course. But I'm still giving a five stars. Well-done.

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