Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
4 Hour(s) 36 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Jorge Escobar
Rating
3 views
Course Overview
Learn the fundamental concepts and build a RESTful API application from scratch
This course will teach you how to build a professional API platform using pure Flask, without any supplemental libraries, so that students can learn the fundamentals of RESTful API design.
In today’s world, dominated by gorgeous JavaScript user interfaces and mobile applications, the ability to build a scalable and well architected API is key to be able to supplement those applications and ensure that clients and servers communicate with the proper interfaces.
The course covers the basic concepts of the RESTful API pattern and then goes into detail and step by step building an API platform that will cover the six constraints of the architecture. Students will learn the industry-standard and will follow best practices for API architectures.
At the end of the course students will be able to design, architect and build their own RESTful API platforms, and with the deep understanding of the laws governing APIs, can go ahead and try out the API libraries available for Python and Flask, knowing the fundamentals and the advantages of using them.
If you already know the basics of Flask and you are interested in how to design, architect and build an API platform, this is the course for you.
The course is divided in 2 sections:
Introduction which covers all the concepts necessary to understand what is a RESTful API and its six constraints
A step by step explanation building a Pet Store API that will include an authentication layer, a Store endpoint and a Pet endpoint as well as search functionalities
The course has more than 5 hours of video tutorials as well as the source code at the end of each section, so that you can follow along with the coding process.
The course can take anywhere from 3 to 10 days to complete based on how much material the student completes daily.
Additionally we’re constantly updating the course, adding contents thanks to the feedback of our students.
Join this course and continue your path to becoming a professional backend web developer!
Course Content
- 4 section(s)
- 37 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 A Simple API - Pet Store
- Section 3 Conclusion
- Section 4 Bonus Section
What You’ll Learn
- You will learn the fundamental concepts for the design of RESTful API platforms
- You will be introduced to the RESTful API constraints
- You will learn how to setup an authentication API layer
- You will learn how to effectively build API endpoints
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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TTed Swoyer
Good development of an API to illustrate basic concepts as well as some advanced concepts such as authorization, pagination and HATEOAS.
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TThomas Ortiz
I took the original basic Flask course from this instructor, and it used the older, function-based views instead of pluggable views. I needed to do some external research to learn the new class-based views before I could really use this material. In general, however, the material was good.
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GGaurav Jotwani
The course gave me an idea about a bunch of tools and frameworks - docker, mongodb, flask & fixturing in tests. Overall very informative and well paced.
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JJesper Bagge
This course is a good starting point if you're interested in developing RESTful APIs with Flask. However, something that could've been noted earlier on is that that this course does not leverage the strengths of addons like flask-restful or flask-JWT (java web tokens). I also felt it to be a bit awkward to use pluggable views (classes with get, post, etc. as methods) for each endpoint. This resulted in a couple of quite hairy, nested if-statements to figure out if the request url contained specific words. But as I said. This course is a great starting point of your future API career.
