Intro to JavaScript APIs

Intro to JavaScript APIs, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.2, with 53 lectures, based on 23 reviews, and has 240 subscribers.

You will learn about Use REST APIs with JavaScript Retrieving and Modifying Data with REST APIs Working with Databases Uploading Files with REST APIs Securing REST APIs with JSON Web Tokens Caching REST API Data with Local Storage This course is ideal for individuals who are Intermediate web developers who are interested in back-end development and APIs It is particularly useful for Intermediate web developers who are interested in back-end development and APIs.

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Summary

Title: Intro to JavaScript APIs

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.2

Number of Lectures: 53

Number of Published Lectures: 53

Number of Curriculum Items: 58

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 58

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Use REST APIs with JavaScript

Retrieving and Modifying Data with REST APIs

Working with Databases

Uploading Files with REST APIs

Securing REST APIs with JSON Web Tokens

Caching REST API Data with Local Storage

Who Should Attend

Intermediate web developers who are interested in back-end development and APIs

Target Audiences

Intermediate web developers who are interested in back-end development and APIs

This course will teach you how to write, use, and consume REST APIs in JavaScript.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are constructs made available in programming languages to allow developers to create complex functionality more easily. They abstract more complex code away from you, providing some easier syntax to use in its place.

Client-side JavaScript, in particular, has many APIs available to it — these are not part of the JavaScript language itself, rather they are built on top of the core JavaScript language, providing you with extra superpowers to use in your JavaScript code.  While there are many APIs available in JavaScript we often have to write our own custom API to allow transitions and access to data in our application.

A REST API is a way of easily accessing web services. When a RESTful API is called, the server will transfer to the client a representation of the state of the requested resource. A RESTful API is stateless, separates concerns between client-server, allows caching of data client-side and it utilizes standardized base URLs and methods to perform the actions required to manipulate, add, or delete data.

Each section is designed to be completed in one day, along with a hands-on practice activity to be completed before moving on to the next module.

This course assumes the following as prerequisite knowledge:

Intermediate to Advanced JavaScript

Use of the Browser DOM

Use of database CRUD transactions

Basics of Node.js

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Development Environment / Tool Setup

Lecture 1: Setting up your environment

Lecture 2: Getting Started with our Tools

Lecture 3: Create and Test the Express Server

Chapter 2: Use REST APIs with JavaScript, introduction, and course overview

Lecture 1: Using REST in applications

Lecture 2: Communication with Response Codes

Lecture 3: Communicating with Requests

Lecture 4: Using JavaScript with REST

Lecture 5: JavaScript Sample Client Request

Lecture 6: Getting Started with Express

Chapter 3: Retrieving and Modifying Data with REST APIs

Lecture 1: Retrieving Data using a REST API

Lecture 2: Using JSON Envelopes to Return Data

Lecture 3: Creating a Module

Lecture 4: Reading Response Data From a File

Lecture 5: Searching for Data

Lecture 6: Searching for Data Part 2

Lecture 7: What is CRUD?

Lecture 8: Creating a POST Endpoint

Lecture 9: Creating a PUT Endpoint

Lecture 10: Creating a DELETE Endpoint

Lecture 11: Call a REST API Method from an HTML page

Lecture 12: Working with CORS

Lecture 13: Creating an HTML Page to Call the REST API

Chapter 4: Working with Databases

Lecture 1: Using Databases with an API

Lecture 2: Installing MongoDB

Lecture 3: Getting Connected

Lecture 4: Installing Mongoose

Lecture 5: Creating a Schema

Lecture 6: CRUD Operations in Mongoose – Adding Data

Lecture 7: CRUD Operations in Mongoose – Querying

Lecture 8: CRUD Operations in Mongoose – Updating

Lecture 9: CRUD Operations in Mongoose – Deleting

Chapter 5: Uploading files with a JavaScript REST API

Lecture 1: Receiving Files in Express

Lecture 2: Uploading using HTML Forms Synchronously

Lecture 3: Uploading using HTML Forms Asynchronously

Lecture 4: Uploading Multiple Files Synchronously

Lecture 5: Uploading Multiple Files with HTMLHttpRequests

Lecture 6: Managing Files

Lecture 7: Overview of Express File Sending Methods

Chapter 6: Securing REST APIs with JSON Web Tokens

Lecture 1: Introduction to JSON Web Tokens

Lecture 2: Setup the Membership Project

Lecture 3: The Flow of Authentication

Lecture 4: JSON Web Token Registration Request

Lecture 5: Creating a login request

Lecture 6: Permission Middleware

Chapter 7: Caching REST API Data with Local Storage

Lecture 1: Introduction to Local Storage

Lecture 2: Understanding Use Cases

Lecture 3: Getting Started with the Project

Lecture 4: Using API Data Storage – The Storage API

Lecture 5: Working with LocalStorage

Lecture 6: Storing REST API Data

Lecture 7: Keeping Data Fresh

Lecture 8: Polling an API

Lecture 9: Using a Timestamp for Better API Polling

Instructors

Tiffany Ford
Professor and Computer Scientist

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