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

# Using Newman and Heroku
In this exercise, you’ll get a chance to expand the functionality of `newman`, the automated testing application. This time, along with using the `newman` library to test our package, you’ll be able to add an additional step that will automatically deploy the package to the Heroku cloud platform.

In this exercise, you’ll need to update the `norman` utility to handle continuous deployment.

To update the utility, you’ll need to go to the `norman/index.js` file in the terminal below to locate the commented section with the title `add deployment command here`. Modify the `shell.exec(...)` command on the subsequent line to include the correct `git` command needed to fire off Heroku’s continuous delivery process (you should need just four keywords on a single line to make this work).

Once you have the code updated, run the same command as before (`norman assets/api-onboarding,postman_collection.json`). If all goes well, you should see your project pushed into production again on the Heroku platform.



Practice how to automatically deploy our package to the Heroku cloud platform.

Introduction

Understanding HTTP, REST, and APIs

Modeling APIs

Designing APIs

Describing APIs

Sketching APIs

Prototyping APIs

Building APIs

Testing APIs

Securing APIs

Deploying APIs

Modifying APIs

Some Parting Thoughts

Appendixes

Challenge: Deploying APIs

Using Newman and Heroku