APIs Fundamentals

Delve deeper into the processes and concepts behind APIs and their infrastructure. Explore the key concepts that underpin API development and the principles of representational state transfer architectural style (REST) architecture. Build basic API and REST data backbones for web apps using Django. Discover emerging API technology and practice other ways to build and work with APIs. Finally, you will test, optimize and develop documentation for an API. By the end of this course you will be able

• Understand API development principles
• Explain REST architectural concepts
• Build a basic API with Django
• Test and optimize API performance
• Develop clear API documentation

• Basic web development knowledge
• Fundamental programming concepts
• Basic understanding of networking protocols