Are you embarking on creating an API for your website or mobile app? If so, just striking forward with your API could be a mistake. In this course, Designing RESTful Web APIs, you will see how to design an API so you can see how REST really works and everything you need to take into account before you deploy your first API. First, you will explore the fundamentals of HTTP and REST. Then, you will design and entire API including its URIs, verb usage, message bodies, associations, paging, error handling, and caching. Finally, you’ll know learn why versioning is so important to a successful API project and know different security considerations for locking down your API. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to design a REST API that will stand the test of time.
Author Name: Shawn Wildermuth
Author Description:
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. He’s authored eight books and innumerable articles on software development. You can also see him at one of the local and international conferences he’s spoken at including TechEd, Oredev, SDC, NDC, VSLive, DevIntersection, MIX, Devteach, DevConnections and Dev Reach. He is one of… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• What Is REST?
  19mins
• Designing a RESTful API
  26mins
• Complex API Scenarios
  24mins
• Versioning Your API
  11mins
• Locking Down Your API
  24mins