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REST APIs: Learn By Coding
If you're looking to build a REST API, this book can help you. In it, we walk you through building two API clients and three API servers. You'll code a basic API, an intermediate API, and finally a more complicated API.
You'll do this in the most popular PHP framework available Laravel. But it isn't necessary to know Laravel. You'll be able to follow along even if you aren't familiar with it. You can also take what you learn, and easily apply it to other languages and frameworks.
You will learn how
- design REST APIs
- make HTTP requests and responses
- return the proper HTTP codes
- install the Homestead virtual machine
- use Laravel's API routes, controllers, and resources
- protect your API with token-based security
- test your REST API with a Chrome extension
- and much, much more
The source code per chapter is available in a GitHub repository, so you can use that to save time as you learn how to build REST APIs.
You'll do this in the most popular PHP framework available Laravel. But it isn't necessary to know Laravel. You'll be able to follow along even if you aren't familiar with it. You can also take what you learn, and easily apply it to other languages and frameworks.
You will learn how
- design REST APIs
- make HTTP requests and responses
- return the proper HTTP codes
- install the Homestead virtual machine
- use Laravel's API routes, controllers, and resources
- protect your API with token-based security
- test your REST API with a Chrome extension
- and much, much more
The source code per chapter is available in a GitHub repository, so you can use that to save time as you learn how to build REST APIs.
72 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 6, 2018
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