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

## Why we need a custom Postman test library

Sometimes writing tests can seem a bit tedious. It definitely takes time and commitment to create valuable tests that won’t break easily as we modify our API over time. Also, one of the advantages of BDD-style assertion kits like the Chai.js library is that it has a fluent interface that results in a lot of text for us to type when we’re writing the tests. For this, and other reasons, we have created some Postman test libraries that we can easily add to any Postman collection to make writing comprehensive tests a bit easier and faster.

## Example of a custom Postman test library
Let’s say we have a Postman test library that includes a number of handy functions for writing protocol-structure-value test collections like the one we saw previously. The following summary gives us an idea of how the library looks:


# Why we need a custom Postman test library

Sometimes writing tests can seem a bit tedious. It definitely takes time and commitment to create valuable tests that won’t break easily as we modify our API over time. Also, one of the advantages of BDD-style assertion kits like the Chai.js library is that it has a fluent interface that results in a lot of text for us to type when we’re writing the tests. For this, and other reasons, we have created some Postman test libraries that we can easily add to any Postman collection to make writing comprehensive tests a bit easier and faster.

# Example of a custom Postman test library
Let’s say we have a Postman test library that includes a number of handy functions for writing protocol-structure-value test collections like the one we saw previously. The following summary gives us an idea of how the library looks:


Learn how to create your own Postman test libraries.


Creating Postman Test Libraries

Learn how to create your own Postman test libraries.

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

Creating Postman Test Libraries

Why we need a custom Postman test library