APIs, Projects & Deployment

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this course, you'll learn to build RESTful APIs, handle GET, PATCH, and DELETE requests, and integrate Express routers for modular handling. You'll also create a social media app with both backend and frontend components, applying authentication and RESTful endpoints. You’ll start by mastering REST API basics and using POSTMAN for testing, then move on to building your own API with asynchronous functions. The course covers creating a social media app backend, using Git and GitHub for version control, and deploying your website live. Perfect for aspiring backend developers and those interested in API development and deployment, this course requires basic JavaScript knowledge. By the end, you will be able to design and deploy RESTful APIs, manage Git and GitHub, create social media apps, and host websites.