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

# What is DARRT? 
In this lesson, we’ll do a short walkthrough of the build process called DARRT. We’ll use it to build working APIs from our design documents with Node.js. **DARRT** is a process for building code from design documents. We’ve created the DARRT framework as a teaching tool and as a quick way to start lightweight microservice and API projects. The version we’ll use here is a downsized edition. This version is not a production-ready implementation. We took lots of shortcuts and left out complicated error-handling code to make sure the routines are easy to read and modify for these lessons. Even though this framework is not recommended for production use, you can take the lessons you learn here and apply them to any framework or programming language you and your team are using.

By relying on a consistent process for building APIs, we can get things done quickly and easily and focus on the work of accurately translating the design into code. And by using the same process more than once, we can get more skilled at the work and even learn how to modify the process to better fit our needs in the future.


Learn how to code APIs with Node.js and DARRT.


Coding APIs with Node.js and DARRT

Learn how to code APIs with Node.js and DARRT.

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

Coding APIs with Node.js and DARRT

What is DARRT?