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Quiz: Adopting and Exploring APIs

Challenge: API Calls with curl

Solution: API Calls with curl

Understanding HTTP, REST, and APIs

8 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of HTTP, REST principles, Git usage, and GitHub repository management.

Understanding Web API Protocols, Practices, and Styles

The Web and the REST API

Managing Files with Git

Creating a Public GitHub Project

Quiz: HTTP, REST, and APIs

Challenge: Understanding HTTP, REST, and APIs

Solution: Understanding HTTP, REST, and APIs

Modeling APIs

9 Lessons

Master the steps to model APIs effectively using workflows, user stories, and npm tools.

Understanding the Norman’s Action Cycle

Modeling Our Onboarding API Cycle

Writing an API Story

Creating Our npm Package

Managing Our Project with npm

Identifying API Descriptors

Quiz: Modeling APIs

Challenge: Modeling APIs

Solution: Modeling APIs

Designing APIs

8 Lessons

Enhance your skills in consistent API design, using structured methods, diagrams, and user-focused terminology.

The Power of Design

The API Design Method

Creating Our Sequence Diagrams for an API Design

Challenge: Designing APIs

Quiz: Designing APIs

Solution: Designing APIs

Describing APIs

7 Lessons

Take a closer look at documenting API designs using ALPS, including practical implementation and version control.

Learning the Role of Description Formats

Describing our API with ALPS

Updating an API Project

Challenge: Describing APIs

Quiz: Describing APIs

Solution: Describing APIs

Sketching APIs

9 Lessons

Follow the process of sketching APIs for efficient design, refinement, and testing.

Learning from Frank Gehry’s Sketches

API Sketching Example

The Advantages of Sketching

Sketching APIs with the Apiary Editor

API Sketching Tips and Tricks

Challenge: Sketching APIs

Quiz: Sketching APIs

Solution: Sketching APIs

Prototyping APIs

12 Lessons

Build on creating thorough API prototypes using OpenAPI, SwaggerHub, and ReDocly tools.

What is an API Prototype?

API Prototyping with OpenAPI

Translating API Design into HTTP

Introduction to SwaggerHub

Creating Our OpenAPI Document with SwaggerHub

Saving and Exporting an OAS Document

Mocking an API Using SwaggerHub

Generating API Documentation

Challenge: Prototyping APIs

Quiz: Prototyping APIs

Solution: Prototyping APIs

Building APIs

12 Lessons

Try out building APIs with Node.js and DARRT, emphasizing reusable processes and efficient coding.

The API Reusable Build Process

Coding APIs with Node.js and DARRT

DARRT Project: Data

DARRT Project: Actions

DARRT Project: Resources

DARRT Project: Representation

DARRT Project: Transitions

Putting It All Together

Using Postman for API Testing

Quiz: Building APIs

Challenge: Building APIs

Solution: Building APIs

Testing APIs

11 Lessons

Unpack the core of API testing principles, techniques with Postman, SRTs, and Newman.

The Goals of API Testing

Testing with SRTs

Programming Postman Tests

Writing a Sad-Path Test in Postman

Creating Postman Test Libraries

Running Tests Locally with Newman

Implementing API Security with Auth0

Quiz: Testing APIs

Challenge: Testing APIs

Solution: Testing APIs

10.

Securing APIs

7 Lessons

Work your way through identity, access control, encryption, OAuth, and JWT for API security.

Basics of API Security

Supporting machine-to-machine security

The Basics of Deployment Pipeline

Quiz: Securing APIs

Challenge: Securing APIs

Solution: Securing APIs

11.

Deploying APIs

8 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of deployment pipelines, DevOps practices, and deploying APIs with Heroku.

The Role of DevOps

Deploying with Heroku - Setup on GitHub

Deploying with Heroku - Production and App Launch

Challenge: Deploying APIs

Quiz: Deploying APIs

Solution: Deploying APIs

12.

Modifying APIs

7 Lessons

Take a closer look at modifying live APIs while ensuring backward compatibility and user trust.

Going Beyond Versioning

The Three Rules for Safely Modifying APIs

The Process for Safely Deploying APIs

Shutting Down an Existing API

Quiz: Modifying APIs

13.

Some Parting Thoughts

2 Lessons

Focus on API design principles, from aligning with business needs to deployment techniques.

The Pragmatic Programmers

What's next?

14.

Appendixes

6 Lessons

Master the steps to install essential tools like curl, GitHub, Node.js, Postman, Heroku, and local utilities.

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