Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 37 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Packt Publishing
Rating
Course Overview
Explore the practical side of REST to build data-centric applications with Node
RESTful Web APIs allow developers to create unprecedented applications by leveraging the data on the internet. Since JavaScript is the language of the web, building APIs using Node.js provides a seamless development experience on both the front end and the back end.
This video course gives you an overview of a RESTful API and goes through the logical steps of building one. It explores three different APIs, focusing on their similarities and differences to effectively implement one.
We’ll start off by defining APIs, showing you how they can be built on top of HTTP, and listing the properties that make an API RESTful. We will develop Twitter Notes, a web application that lets its users leave notes for their Twitter friends. We will use Twitter’s API to implement a login flow and then design a web API. In addition to using Twitter’s API, we will take a closer look at two other real-world APIs—Facebook API and GitHub API. Finally, we’ll look at some best practices to keep the APIs secure, maintainable, and performing.
By the end of this course, you will have a good grasp of APIs, HTTP, REST, OAuth 1.0a, API testing, and site reliability, performance, and security. Since the course explores three different REST APIs, you will reach a level where you will be comfortable using any RESTful API, even if it does not have an SDK.
About the Authors
Saleh Hamadeh works as a full-stack software developer at Redfin, a startup that it is using technology to reinvent real-estate. Earlier in his career, Saleh worked at Yahoo! and BrainJocks. During his college years, Saleh served as president of gt-web dev, a Georgia Tech student organization that teaches web development. He is passionate about the future of the web and wants to continue to work and learn in this field.
Course Content
- 5 section(s)
- 27 lecture(s)
- Section 1 REST Fundamentals
- Section 2 Consuming a RESTful API
- Section 3 Building a RESTful API
- Section 4 APIs in the Real World
- Section 5 Best Practices
What You’ll Learn
- Know what an API is and how it is used in client-server communication, Explore HTTP requests and responses and find out about the various fields that make up these requests and responses, Understand the architectural constraints and properties that make an API RESTful, Use Twitter’s API to tweet and search for tweets, Store Twitter’s data in our database to minimize the use of Twitter’s API, Use Async.js to handle Twitter’s API constraints, Test APIs using Postman and Apache Benchmark, Build the API on the server using Express.js and MongoDB, Find out about the Facebook Graph API, and its structure, resources, and permissions, Be introduced to GitHub API, its use of different representations, the PATCH verb, HATEOAS, and conditional requests, Get security tips to prevent session hijacking vulnerabilities
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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AAlexander Förster
It's a good intro and overview for beginners. I snoozed comfortably during the practical part; which is a bit outdated but still good enough to start with. For the the look over the plate part, I just miss a summary markup document, in the course-materials. This is the reason I gave only 4 instead of 5!
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UUdemy User
very bad voice of instructor, not suited to this medium. Not really much on theory of good api design which would have been expected. I think postman browser plugin in api testing video is not maintained for a while now and so maybe they should update the videos on that
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SSudhavamsikiran Damojipurapu
The course is overall good. But instructor used existing API's of twitter and facebook and where he reused the methods from the same. It will be more attractive if he can create an application on his own and reuse them. But this is very good platform to learn basics of node.js Thanks for information
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DDaniel Schemann
In this course existing code is used to roughly explain what it does and what its meant for. The course description doesn't reflect the way the course is made as also how the content is presented. If you want to get a high level overview about the topics this course covers you can give it a try.
