REST API Foundations
Understand REST APIs: resources, methods, status codes and JSON, and build one.
What you'll learn
- Explain resources, methods and status codes
- Read and write JSON
- Design endpoints for a simple app
- Build and test a small REST API
About this course
You learn how REST APIs work by calling public ones and then building your own. A reviewer checks your API design and your final endpoints.
Course curriculum
4 modules and 12 lessons over 4–5 weeks. Plan for about 16 learning hours.
01How APIs workWeek 1 · 3 lessons
- HTTP requests
- Methods
- Status codes
02JSONWeek 2 · 3 lessons
- JSON structure
- Nested data
- Errors in JSON
03DesignWeek 3 · 3 lessons
- Resource naming
- Filtering and pagination
- Versioning
04BuildWeeks 4–5 · 3 lessons
- Express endpoints
- Testing with an API client
- Review
Project
Recipes REST API. A small REST API for recipes, designed on paper first and then built.
Who this course is for
Front-end and junior developers who use APIs without knowing how they are designed.
Prerequisites
You know JavaScript and have made a fetch request.
What's included
- 180-day course access
- Structured lessons
- Project files
- Code templates
- Checkpoints
- One instructor review
- Support during the program
- A digital completion certificate
Learning format
Guided project course, part of our guided project courses. Checkpoints and one instructor review.
Access and delivery
- Enrollment access is activated within 15 minutes after payment.
- Instructor review is normally completed within 2 business days per submitted checkpoint, and the final certificate is issued within 2 business days after completion.
Certificate
You receive a digital completion certificate. Instructor review is normally completed within 2 business days per submitted checkpoint, and the final certificate is issued within 2 business days after completion.
Frequently asked questions
When does access start?
Enrollment access is activated within 15 minutes after payment.
Is payment taken on this website?
No. After you submit your enrollment request, we reply by email with payment details and enrollment confirmation.
Does this course guarantee a job or income?
No. It is an education and training service and does not include employment, income or placement guarantees.
Can I cancel?
Our Refund and Cancellation Policy lists the terms for guided project programs.
