Build a Python REST API with the Django Rest Framework (Udemy.com)
Connect devices, front ends, other apps, and much more by creating your own REST API. Learn how in this course.
Created by: Justin Mitchel
Produced in 2018
What you will learn
- What is an API?
- What is a REST API?
- How to build your own REST API
- A deeper understanding of Django
- A deep understanding of the Django Rest Framework
- A deep understanding of JWT and authentication with the Django Rest Framework
- Building an REST API with Python
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Overall Score : 76 / 100
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Course Description
How does Apple Maps have Yelp listings?
How does Tinder get Facebook userprofiles?
How does Amazon Alexa know the latest news?
These questions get to the core of how powerful RESTAPIs can be: it allows for websites to communicate with each other without any human interaction.
Building a RESTAPI isn't just about connecting with third party services, it's also about:
Adding Authentication, Registration, Databases, and more to your Mobile App, IOTDevice, TV app, Car app, and moreConnecting your own web apps with each otherCreating micro-servicesAdding a backend for Angular, React, iOSApps, Android apps, and moreSimplifying the process of separating your backend from your frontendMaking it easier to build additional services with new developers
This course will teach you step-by-step exactlyhow to build a RESTAPI
We'll cover the concepts first, then we'll go into build a PUREDJANGORESTAPI, then we'll use the Django RESTFramework to build a RESTAPI.
Who this course is for:
Anyone looking to connect their apps (mobile, web, iot, TV, etc) to a REST APIAnyone looking to get better at building web applicationsAnyone looking to add Users, Security, Permissions, and a Database to anything that can connect to the internetPythonistas and Beginner Python learnersDjangonauts and Beginner Django learners
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Justin Mitchel
It all started with an idea. I wanted freedom... badly. Freedom from work, freedom from boredom, and, most of all, the freedom to choose. This simple idea grew to define me; it made me become an entrepreneur.
As I strived to gain freedom, overtime I realized that with everything that you do you can either (1) convince someone, somehow, to do it with you or (2) figure out how to do it yourself.
Due to a lack of financial resources (and probably the ability to convince people to do high quality work for free), I decided to learn. Then learn some more. Then some more. My path of learning website design started a long time ago. And yes, it was out of need not desire. I believed I needed a website for a company that I started. So I learned how to do it. The company died, my skills lived on... and got better and better.
It took me a while after learning web design (html/css) to actually start learning programming (web application, storing "data", user logins, etc). I tinkered with Wordpress, believing it could be a "user" site, but I was mistaken. Sure there are/were hacks for that, but they were hacks/work-arounds and simply not-what-wordpress-was-indended-to-be. Wordpress is for blogs/content. Plain and simple.
I wanted more. I had a web application idea that I thought would change the way restaurants hire their service staff. I tested it with my basic html/css skills, had great initial results, and found a technical (pr


