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

# Background
Most of the work of deploying our API project into production is handled by the Heroku CLI Client we reviewed previously. However, we need to manually deploy the application (in other words, type in the proper command in the command window) in order to complete the deployment process. That means our current level of automation is at continuous delivery.

This challenge was for you to elevate your deployment automation to continuous deployment. In other words, to automate that last step of deploying into production. To do that, you were given a hint to modify the `norman` test runner tool we used previously, to not only automate the testing, but also automate the final production deployment. You even got the hint that you only needed to modify a single line of the test runner script to do that.

# Sample source code for the norman utility
Another copy of the source code for the `norman` utility can be found in the terminal below. If you open the `norman/index.js` file in that folder, you’ll find the following:


Let’s 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

Solution: Deploying APIs

Background