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REST API Development

REST API Development

Beginner

Learn to design and build REST APIs from zero — the backbone of every modern app, website, and mobile product. Understand how HTTP really works (methods, status codes, headers), design clean endpoints around resources, exchange data with JSON, and build full CRUD operations that create, read, update, and delete data. Then secure your API with keys, tokens, and HTTPS. No backend experience required — by the end you can design, build, and protect a real REST API with confidence.

📋 5 tracks ❓ 250 questions 💡 20 tips 🎬 10 videos ⏱ ~6h

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REST API Development

REST API Development

Beginner

Learn to design and build REST APIs from zero — the backbone of every modern app, website, and mobile product. Understand how HTTP really works (methods, status codes, headers), design clean endpoints around resources, exchange data with JSON, and build full CRUD operations that create, read, update, and delete data. Then secure your API with keys, tokens, and HTTPS. No backend experience required — by the end you can design, build, and protect a real REST API with confidence.

📋 5 tracks ❓ 250 questions 💡 20 tips 🎬 10 videos ⏱ ~6h

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Course content

What Is a REST API?

What Is a REST API?

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HTTP Methods & Status Codes

HTTP Methods & Status Codes

⏱ 7:29

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Designing Resource URLs

Designing Resource URLs

⏱ 7:08

Filtering, Sorting & Pagination

Filtering, Sorting & Pagination

⏱ 7:34

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Working with JSON Bodies

Working with JSON Bodies

⏱ 7:01

Designing Good Error Responses

Designing Good Error Responses

⏱ 7:18

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Create and Read: POST and GET

Create and Read: POST and GET

⏱ 7:16

Update and Delete: PUT, PATCH, DELETE

Update and Delete: PUT, PATCH, DELETE

⏱ 7:19

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Authentication with Tokens

Authentication with Tokens

⏱ 6:59

Securing Your API

Securing Your API

⏱ 7:39

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Fundamentals Beginner

Let HTTP Methods Carry the Verb

The method says what to do, the URL says where

Fundamentals Beginner

Status Codes Come in Families

The first digit tells you the whole story

Fundamentals Beginner

REST Servers Have No Memory

Every request must stand on its own

Fundamentals Intermediate

Idempotent Means Safe to Retry

Same request, same result, every time