Gain insights into designing robust APIs, explore essential tools for design, documentation, testing, and deployment. Delve into ALPS, OpenAPI, Postman, and Heroku for comprehensive API development.

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Testing APIs

Testing API Exercise

Building API Exercise

Building API Exercise Solution

Securing API Exercise

Securing API Exercise Solution

MockAPI

Account Mock API

Company service Mock API

Challenge-1 Mock API Solution

Postman Mock API

At the start of this course, you’ll be introduced to a handful of important practices and principles for designing and building APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. You’ll also acquire skills in a wide range of developer tools, including tools for design, documentation, building, testing, security, and deployment. 

You'll learn the best practices for modeling an APIs lifecycle using Donald Norman’s action lifecycle. Then, you’ll learn how to use the sequence diagram for designing APIs and describing them using ALPS. For sketching an API, you will learn about Gehry's sketches. You will also cover OpenAPI and SwaggerHub for API mocking. Moreover, the usage of DARRT and NodeJS will be covered for building APIs. You'll finish with learning how to use the Postman for testing APIs and then deploy them using Heroku.

By the end of this course, you will have an in-depth understanding of how to make fully functional efficient APIs from its inception to its deployment.

Design and Build Great Web APIs

# Exercise
For this challenge, you’ll extend the skills you learned in this chapter by using curl with all three services(Company, Account, and Activity) and storing the results in new files.

First, here is the list of tasks that'll result in API responses saved in seven new files:
> **Note:** Modify the file name is **line-2** in the widget provided below before executing the code. 
>
> Use the URL that's provided in your widget (URL is different for each learner on educative platform).

* Execute the API URL and save the output as `company-home.json`
* Execute the API URL and save the output as `company-list.json`
* Execute the API URL and save the output as `company-record.json`
* Execute the API URL and save the output as `account-list.json`
* Execute the API URL and save the output as `account-record.json` 
* Execute the API URL and save the output as `activity-list.json`
* Execute the API URL and save the output as `activity-record.json`

Use the URLs with the curl utility in the format `curl <URL> > <filename>` to save all seven responses to the disk.

# Coding playground
Complete this challenge in the coding playground below:
> **Note:** After running the code, click on "+" icon to add a new terminal. Execute all the curl commands in new terminal.


Try to make API calls with curl to save responses to the disk.

Introduction

Understanding HTTP, REST, and APIs

Modeling APIs

Designing APIs

Describing APIs

Sketching APIs

Prototyping APIs

Building APIs

Build a Rest API for an Image-Sharing App With Node.js

Testing APIs

Securing APIs

Deploying APIs

Deploying a Web Application to Heroku Using CLI

Modifying APIs

Some Parting Thoughts

Appendixes

Challenge: API Calls with curl

Exercise