From the course: Introduction to Web APIs

What to expect from this course - REST Tutorial

From the course: Introduction to Web APIs

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What to expect from this course

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- There are some things that we're going to ignore in this course. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to APIs so you have a better understanding of what they are and how you can start using them in your application. We're not covering everything you need to know about APIs. We're focused on a way to work with them and hopefully the easiest, most straightforward way to work with them with the smallest learning curve. So we're going to ignore some common terms like REST, CORS, and SOP. We don't need to understand them for this course. CORS and SOP are protocols that are primarily intended to provide some security for APIs. Now, when you hear read about APIs, you'll almost always see the term REST associated with it. This is just a standard for APIs and most conform to the REST standard. We'll be working with REST APIs in this course but not referring to it as such. The only time we'll really talk about REST is at the end of this course when we compare it to a different type of API called GraphQL.

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