Basics of Web API’s (SELF-STUDY)
In this course, we are going to explain RESTful API’s. We will be starting from scratch so we don’t expect you to have prior knowledge about API’s. Basic coding experience and minimal knowledge about the web are an asset.
After this course, you will be able to understand
- What are APIs? What do they provide?
- What does REST mean?
- What is HTTP and why we need it?
- How to use API for CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations
At the end of the course, we end up with the picture below and understand each component.
An Introduction to Web APIs
We are going to explain RESTful API and cover
- What are APIs? What do they provide?
- What does REST mean?
- What is HTTP and why we need it?
- How to use API for CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations
In this lesson, we are defining the Application Programming Interface (API) and try to understand why we need it.
We deep dive into HTTP protocol and decomposite its components.
We are observing the HTTP protocol using the browser developer tool.
In this lesson, we are defining REST word and three main rules of RESTful API