Restful Web Api Design With Nodejs

Explore the practical sides of REST to build data-centric applications with Node

What you'll learn

Define what an API is and how it is used in client-server communication

Explore HTTP requests and responses and find out about the various fields that make up these requests and responses

Understand the architectural constraints and properties that make an API RESTful

Use Twitter’s API to tweet and search for tweets

Store Twitter’s data in our database to minimize the use of Twitter’s API

Use Async.js to handle Twitter’s API constraints

Test APIs using Postman and Apache Benchmark

Build the API on the server using Express.js and MongoDB

Find out about the Facebook Graph API, and its structure, resources, and permissions

Be introduced to GitHub API, its use of different representations, the PATCH verb, HATEOAS, and conditional requests

Get security tips to prevent session hijacking vulnerabilities

Requirements

Knowledge of REST or HTTP is not essential as this course provides all the background information required to get you started.

Description

RESTful Web APIs allow developers to create unprecedented
applications by leveraging the data on the Internet. Since JavaScript is
the language of the web, building APIs using Node.js provides a
seamless development experience on both the front end and the back end.
This video course gives you an overview of a RESTful API and goes
through the logical steps of building one. It explores three different
APIs, focusing on their similarities and differences to effectively
implement one.
We’ll start off by defining APIs, showing how they can be built on
top of HTTP, and listing the properties that make an API RESTful. We
will develop Twitter Notes, a web application that lets its users leave
notes for their Twitter friends. We will use Twitter’s API to implement a
login flow and then design a web API. In addition to using Twitter’s
API, we will take a closer look at two other real-world APIs—Facebook
API and GitHub API. Finally, we’ll end up honing some best practices to
keep the APIs secure, maintainable, and performant.
By the end of this course, you will have a good grasp of APIs, HTTP,
REST, OAuth 1.0a, API testing, and API security. Since the course
explores three different REST APIs, you will reach a level where you
will be comfortable using any RESTful API, even if it does not have an
SDK.About The AuthorSaleh Hamadeh started programming when he was 13, and he currently studies computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Saleh became president of gt-webdev, a student organization focused on teaching students web development. During his time at Georgia Tech, Saleh interned as a web developer at BrainJocks and Yahoo! Saleh is passionate about the future of the web and hopes to work, learn, and teach in that field.

Overview

Section 1: REST Fundamentals

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 What Is an API?

Lecture 3 Communication via HTTP

Lecture 4 Identifying REST Resources

Lecture 5 Properties of RESTful APIs

Lecture 6 Setting Up the Environment

Section 2: Consuming a RESTful API

Lecture 7 A Look at OAuth 1.0a

Lecture 8 Creating an OAuth Login Request

Lecture 9 Getting an Access Token

Lecture 10 Exploring Twitter’s REST API

Lecture 11 Saving Data in MongoDB

Section 3: Building a RESTful API

Lecture 12 Designing the API Specifications

Lecture 13 Creating the API Handlers

Lecture 14 Acceptance Testing with Postman

Lecture 15 Load Testing and Going Multicore

Section 4: APIs in the Real World

Lecture 16 Facebook Graph API

Lecture 17 GitHub API

Lecture 18 IFTTT

Section 5: Best Practices

Lecture 19 Security Considerations

Lecture 20 Documentation

Lecture 21 Versioning

Lecture 22 Caching

This video course is for Node.js developers who know JavaScript and are familiar with HTML and CSS.