REST API Fundamentals

What you'll achieve

• Design clean, intuitive, and standard-compliant RESTful APIs
• Use Postman to test, debug, and document API requests and responses
• Understand API security best practices, CORS, and token authentication
• Implement pagination, sorting, filtering, and error handling patterns

Curriculum

1. 1Client-server architecture, HTTP protocol & request/response lifecycle
2. 2REST principles, URI design & resource naming conventions
3. 3HTTP verbs: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE & appropriate status codes
4. 4JSON structure, payloads, headers & query string parameters
5. 5API testing with Postman: Environments, collections & tests
6. 6Error handling standards, pagination, filtering & sorting
7. 7API security overview: CORS, rate limiting & API keys / tokens
8. 8Project: Comprehensive Postman test collection and documented API specification