The Ultimate Guide to REST API Design: Best Practices & Secrets
Master REST API design with best practices for scalability, security, and a developer-friendly experience.
Updated on Jun, 2025
Language - English
Development ,Web Development,REST API
Lectures -24
Duration -1 hours
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Course Description
1. Companies such as Facebook, Google, GitHub, and Netflix have adopted REST APIs to allow developers easy access to all their vast information storage. Even though you are not building APIs for others, for any developer it is very important to know how to design well-structured and efficient APIs. A well-designed API is not only easy to develop but also more functional and easier to use.
2. While there is no "official" set of rules governing the design of APIs, the general tech industry has agreed on some widely accepted standards and best practices. These standards are crucial in building high-quality APIs that ensure seamless integration, scalability, and optimal performance. This course will lead you through the generally accepted industry standards and teach you how to use them to build robust and effective REST APIs.
3. APIs are the key interface that developers have to data. An API is designed well in such a way as to offer a seamless user experience. It makes it easy for developers to know how to interact with the data they need. Think of an API as the developer's version of a user interface - if it is cluttered, hard to understand, or poorly documented, expect the developers to get frustrated very soon and look elsewhere or abandon it.
4. Experience of the developer to measure the quality of an API is always good. A well-designed, thought-out API is intuitive and easy to use, done keeping in view the needs of those who will be working with it. Improvement of a developer's experience improves not just usability but also adoption rates, productivity, and long-term success.
5. Through this comprehensive course, we are going to learn the fundamental principles of REST API design and best practices in the industry followed by its leaders. You would be able to design scalable, secure, and developer-friendly APIs in the competition. You will have all the skills and knowledge for designing functional yet delightful APIs for developers to use by the end of this course.
In this course you will learn how to take away practical insights and real-world examples that enable you to build stable REST APIs in compliance with best practices. You may be a professional developer, just learning; this will give you confidence creating APIs others will appreciate and rely upon.
Goals
- We begin by going over some of the best practices for the design of rest APIs: do's and don'ts in this course, acquiring all key concepts on how endpoints, methods, and status codes fit together to build up a good API design.
- Then we'll learn how to put some industry best practices in place for a rest API design: principles for restful architecture, URL structuring, request and response formatting, and error handling.
- Scaling API design is another priority piece of the course.
- There, you learn how to design and implement scalable APIs that grow with loads but do not lose performance or fail. Much attention was paid to security aspects, where best practices concerning the securing of REST APIs operating according to authentication and authorization and data protection techniques from common vulnerabilities have been discussed.
- Improving on developer experience, an emphasis is placed on course design. You should, by the end of the course, learn how to design much friendlier APIs while getting at the feel of clear documents and intuitive interfaces with handling errors along the way. Practical examples and case studies are drawn to see how theoretical concepts can make it in practical real-world applications, furthering learning experiences practically.
- You will find tools and frameworks that simplify the design, testing, and management of REST APIs such that you will easily make it your workflow smooth and productive. Finally, you will walk through the API designs with fellow developers to gather feedback and get performance metrics and improve with time while adapting to changing requirements.
- By the end of this course, you would have been very well armed to design, build, and manage robust, secure, and developer-friendly REST APIs that attain very high standards of efficiency, usability, and performance.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of HTTP Request and HTTP Response
Knowledge of Any Server Language
Knowledge of Database
Knowledge of CRUD
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Overview
3 Lectures
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Trainer Introduction
01:36
01:36
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Who can Take the course
00:30
00:30
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Prerquisite to take the course
01:23
01:23
INTRODUCTION
3 Lectures
Identifier Design with URIs
5 Lectures
Interaction Design with HTTP
2 Lectures
Metadata Design
3 Lectures
Representation Design
2 Lectures
Client Concerns
4 Lectures
Summary
2 Lectures
Instructor Details
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