Introduction to REST APIs Course (How To)

Many of the APIs you'll encounter on the Web use an underlying design idea known as REST, which stands for Representational State Transfer. Understanding what and how a REST API provides will help you build better and stronger APIs for your users.

What you'll learn

• REST Concepts
• URI Design
• Other API Concerns

Getting the REST You Need

The RESTful API design pattern is a common, useful, and real world design pattern for turning your web app into a useful tool for building mobile apps, bots, desktop and server scripts, and more. Let's talk about what REST is, the building blocks and terminology of REST, and how you'll be using REST here at Treehouse.

• Introduction

  3:39

• Endpoints

  4:01

• Requests

  5:53

• Endpoint Requests

  5 questions

• Responses

  3:59

• Security

  4:20

• Next Steps

  0:54

• Secure Response

  6 questions