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

## Advantages of low-fidelity sketches

Sketching APIs offers a handful of advantages. Sketching is a great way to try things out and quickly get feedback from others on our ideas. When it takes so little time to try something out, we can afford to try several ideas before we settle on our preferred implementation approach. Sketching APIs can even help us be more creative when it comes to translating the design documents into working API examples.

Also, because the sketches are just small samples of responses, we don’t need to do lots of work ahead of time. Sketches are simple, standalone snippets that convey our ideas without the need to write actual code and deploy it on a server somewhere. Even if we don’t plan to go through lots of iterations of our sketching, we can take advantage of the low-tech nature of sketches and ignore the corner-cases, exceptions, and other minor details we’d be forced to deal with if we tried to sketch our API in actual working code.


# Advantages of low-fidelity sketches

Sketching APIs offers a handful of advantages. Sketching is a great way to try things out and quickly get feedback from others on our ideas. When it takes so little time to try something out, we can afford to try several ideas before we settle on our preferred implementation approach. Sketching APIs can even help us be more creative when it comes to translating the design documents into working API examples.

Also, because the sketches are just small samples of responses, we don’t need to do lots of work ahead of time. Sketches are simple, standalone snippets that convey our ideas without the need to write actual code and deploy it on a server somewhere. Even if we don’t plan to go through lots of iterations of our sketching, we can take advantage of the low-tech nature of sketches and ignore the corner-cases, exceptions, and other minor details we’d be forced to deal with if we tried to sketch our API in actual working code.


Learn about the advantages of creating low-fidelity sketches.

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

The Advantages of Sketching

Advantages of low-fidelity sketches