Build a Backend REST API with Python Django Beginner

Build a Backend REST API with Python & Django – Beginner, available at $94.99, has an average rating of 4.48, with 76 lectures, based on 5931 reviews, and has 32597 subscribers.

You will learn about How to create the most important part of any user application How to confidently use some of the most in-demand full stack technologies today How to create a local development server from scratch How to create a brand new Django project with sqlite database How to build your own browsable, self documenting REST API Handle user registration, login, and status updates in your app with your very own REST API This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for developers who want build a REST API either for their app, MVP or business idea. or This course is for frontend developers who want to learn backend. It is particularly useful for This course is for developers who want build a REST API either for their app, MVP or business idea. or This course is for frontend developers who want to learn backend.

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Summary

Title: Build a Backend REST API with Python & Django – Beginner

Price: $94.99

Average Rating: 4.48

Number of Lectures: 76

Number of Published Lectures: 76

Number of Curriculum Items: 76

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 76

Original Price: ￡89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to create the most important part of any user application

How to confidently use some of the most in-demand full stack technologies today

How to create a local development server from scratch

How to create a brand new Django project with sqlite database

How to build your own browsable, self documenting REST API

Handle user registration, login, and status updates in your app with your very own REST API

Who Should Attend

This course is for developers who want build a REST API either for their app, MVP or business idea.

This course is for frontend developers who want to learn backend.

Target Audiences

This course is for developers who want build a REST API either for their app, MVP or business idea.

This course is for frontend developers who want to learn backend.

Welcome to the beginner course on How to Build a REST API from scratch, using Django, Django REST Framework, Python, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Atom, and ModHeaders. You’ll also learn how to deploy your dev server to AWS!

This course is made with Django 2.2 and Django REST Framework 3.9.

The skills taught in this course are absolutely essential for creating successful products that users love and can’t live without.

Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, you name it. These apps all have their own backend REST APIs that handle millions of call requests everyday. You cannot build a successful app without a backend REST API.

Not only is it essential to whatever app or MVP you are building the skills you learn in this course will make you a kickass developer in the workplace.

If you’re a front-end developer and you take this course, you’ll be able to “speak backend” with your colleagues and understand what’s going on “under the hood” of all your projects, increasing your confidence and earning the respect of your peers.

If you’re a newbie developer or just starting out in your career, this course will give you a very practical foundation to building your portfolio and increasing your earning potential.

In this course you will learn the best-practice way of building your very own REST API.

You will learn how to create a local development server and test your code each step of the way.

Whether you’re looking to gain a bit of experience with backend development, or you’re looking to create a REST API to turn your app idea into a reality – then this course is for you.

By the end of this course you will have built a fully functioning REST API that can handle:

Creating and updating user profiles.

Login and authentication.

Posting status updates.

Viewing status update feeds.

You’ll also have a solid foundation to understanding one of the most complex components in software development.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course structure

Lecture 3: Technologies

Lecture 4: Vagrant vs. Docker

Lecture 5: How to get the most out of this course

Lecture 6: How to get help

Chapter 2: Setting up your development environment

Lecture 1: Windows: Installing Git, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Atom and ModHeader

Lecture 2: macOS: Installing Git, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Atom and ModHeader

Chapter 3: Setting up your project

Lecture 1: Creating a workspace

Lecture 2: Creating a Git project

Lecture 3: Pushing to GitHub

Chapter 4: Creating a development server

Lecture 1: Creating a Vagrantfile

Lecture 2: Configuring our Vagrant box

Lecture 3: Running and connecting to our dev server

Lecture 4: Running a Hello World script

Chapter 5: Creating a Django app

Lecture 1: Create Python Virtual Environment

Lecture 2: Install required Python packages

Lecture 3: Create a new Django project & app

Lecture 4: Enable our app in the Django settings file

Lecture 5: Test and commit our changes

Chapter 6: Setup the Database

Lecture 1: What are Django Models?

Lecture 2: Create our user database model

Lecture 3: Add a user model manager

Lecture 4: Set our custom user model

Lecture 5: Create migrations and sync DB

Chapter 7: Setup Django Admin

Lecture 1: Creating a superuser

Lecture 2: Enable Django Admin

Lecture 3: Test Django Admin

Chapter 8: Introduction to API Views

Lecture 1: What is an APIView?

Lecture 2: Create first APIView

Lecture 3: Configure view URL

Lecture 4: Testing our API View

Lecture 5: Create a Serializer

Lecture 6: Add POST method to APIView

Lecture 7: Test POST Function

Lecture 8: Add PUT, PATCH and DELETE methods

Lecture 9: Test the PUT, PATCH and DELETE methods

Chapter 9: Introduction to Viewsets

Lecture 1: What is a Viewset?

Lecture 2: Create a simple Viewset

Lecture 3: Add URL Router

Lecture 4: Testing our Viewset

Lecture 5: Add create, retrieve, update, partial_update and destroy functions

Lecture 6: Test Viewset

Chapter 10: Create Profiles API

Lecture 1: Plan our Profiles API

Lecture 2: Create user profile serializer

Lecture 3: UPDATE: Bug in profile serializer

Lecture 4: Create profiles ViewSet

Lecture 5: Register profile Viewset with the URL router

Lecture 6: Test creating a profile

Lecture 7: Create permission class

Lecture 8: Add authentication and permissions to Viewset

Lecture 9: Test new permissions

Lecture 10: Add search profiles feature

Lecture 11: Test searching profiles

Chapter 11: Create login API

Lecture 1: Create login API viewset

Lecture 2: Test login API

Lecture 3: Set token header using ModHeader extension

Chapter 12: Create profile feed API

Lecture 1: Plan profile feed API

Lecture 2: Add new model Item

Lecture 3: Create and run model migration

Lecture 4: Add profile feed model to admin

Lecture 5: Create profile feed item serializer

Lecture 6: Create ViewSet for our profile feed item

Lecture 7: Test Feed API

Lecture 8: Add permissions for feed API

Lecture 9: Test feed API permissions

Lecture 10: Restrict viewing status updates to logged in users only

Lecture 11: Test new private feed

Chapter 13: Deploying our API to a server on AWS

Lecture 1: Introduction to deploying our app to AWS

Lecture 2: Add key pair to AWS

Lecture 3: Create EC2 server instance

Lecture 4: Add deployment script and configs to our project

Lecture 5: Deploy to server

Lecture 6: Update allowed hosts and deploy changes

Chapter 14: Summary

Lecture 1: Course outro

Lecture 2: FAQs

Instructors

Mark Winterbottom
Full-Stack Software Engineer

Brooke Rutherford
Brand & Marketing Communications

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2 stars: 86 votes

3 stars: 568 votes

4 stars: 1970 votes

5 stars: 3233 votes

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