API First Engineering with Spring Boot (Udemy.com)

This is a great course! As a decades long user of Maven and Java I have taken advantage of "tribal knowledge" of Spring API and Open API Specifications. I highly recommend this course to those approaching API first development. As an engineer that has been a user of JHipster, this course is a must to understand Spring and JHipster Microservices for junior and mid-level engineers. John's Open API course is a great compliment. I'm holding back half a star for the Redocly stuff. I worked around it, leveraging that "tribal knowledge." I used it's tooling for linting, but abandoned the online portion. I also was able to upgrade to 3.1 with the updates to the Atlassian libraries since the creation of this course and use the Swagger Next Docker images to test and view the OAS throughout the course. Maybe time for some updates.

Unfortunately I could not follow the course, by coding along site, because a part of it is dependent on Redocly, wich I did not have an account and wich is not free, Neverless the inforamtion are very useful and I continue without coding. It is still a very nice Course

I always like Jon Thompson courses. He is a good teacher and the content that he publishes is always very valuable

The explanations and assignments were good, as they provided a great tool for practice, but I must say that the course is a bit outdated regarding its first part, when it comes to the Redocly service, as it is no longer free or resembles anything shown in the video. I could not host my OpenAPI files and had to look up how to use them locally for the code generation. I would've appreciated a small update or an alternative way on how to do it! The rest of the course was fine, I must say.

The course covers a wide range of useful topics, it's well explained. There are many assignments that make it possible to put into practice the different topics.

Redocly isn't available for public/free

The instructor is knowledgeable and the instructions are very clear.

Nice structured, easy to follow the ideas and well explained

I am interested in api first developement, and this course is uniquely contains about that subject. I am excited about that !! thanks

Great course to learn more how to build API first application (previously I worked only with swagger - aka openapi 2.0): 1) integrataion with redocly - PaaS for documentation; 2) covered in needed details maven openapi plugin to generate both model and client; 3) atlassian swagger validator - nice but a bit too slow; 4) problem response explained on practical example usage - zalando What I would improve: 1) a bit too much hibernate and mapstrcut mappings (I mean probably 75% of assignments time took hibernate and mapping); 2) I expected to see some contract testing - e.g. spring cloud contract; 3) Will be nice to say few words how to build standalone documentation - in some cases it can be useful. Thanks John for your job - looking forward for more interesting cources (where I have knowledge gaps).