Learn Rest API

Use Rest APIs to make it easier for applications to communicate with each other. These tutorials show you how to code an API using various frameworks and approaches.
  1. Introduction to Apollo Client With React for GraphQL

    Introduction to Apollo Client With React for GraphQL

    Tutorial Intermediate

    GraphQL has been getting popular recently and is likely to replace the Rest API. In this tutorial, we will use Apollo Client to communicate with GitHub's...

  2. New Short Course: Code a Front-End App With GraphQL and React

    New Short Course: Code a Front-End App With GraphQL and React

    Tutorial Beginner

    In our new short course, Code a Front-End App With GraphQL and React, you'll learn how to connect to a GraphQL endpoint from a React app.

  3. Code an App With GraphQL, React Native and AWS AppSync: The App

    Code an App With GraphQL, React Native and AWS AppSync: The App

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In these tutorials, you're learning how to create and interact with a GraphQL database using AWS AppSync and React Native. In this post, we'll wrap it up by...

  4. Code an App With GraphQL, React Native, and AWS AppSync: The Back-End

    Code an App With GraphQL, React Native, and AWS AppSync: The Back-End

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In these tutorials, I'll show you how to create and interact with a GraphQL database using AWS AppSync and React Native. This app will have real-time and...

  5. New Course: Build APIs With GraphQL

    New Course: Build APIs With GraphQL

    Tutorial Beginner

    GraphQL is designed to work with data represented by a graph, and it has a powerful query syntax for traversing, retrieving, and mutating data. Learn how to...

  6. Programming With Yii: Generating Documentation

    Programming With Yii: Generating Documentation

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn to use Yii2's automated documentation generator, apidoc, as I build the API documentation for my startup Meeting Planner application.

  7. How to Create a Data Model for a REST API With LoopBack

    How to Create a Data Model for a REST API With LoopBack

    Tutorial Intermediate

    LoopBack takes the pain out of creating an API and can dramatically reduce your development time. In this short video tutorial from my course Generate REST...

  8. Using the Twitter API to Tweet Repetitive Content

    Using the Twitter API to Tweet Repetitive Content

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twitter's API has various undocumented restrictions that sometimes block attempts to automate a fun bot or a serious marketing effort. Learn ways to succeed...

  9. Building With the Twitter API: Analyzing Your Followers

    Building With the Twitter API: Analyzing Your Followers

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twitter social engagement is often weak. Learn how to investigate how many of your followers are real people vs. bots and how many are likely to ever see...

  10. How to Use the WordPress REST API's Index Route

    How to Use the WordPress REST API's Index Route

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this video tutorial from my course Introduction to the WordPress REST API, we'll explore the API by sending a GET request to the index route.

  11. Programming With Yii2: Building a RESTful API

    Programming With Yii2: Building a RESTful API

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The Yii Framework provides straightforward support for implementing APIs, essential to making your application data available to other apps and services.

  12. Building With the Twitter API: Creating Friends to Follow

    Building With the Twitter API: Creating Friends to Follow

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn to add followers to users' accounts with their authorization. This episode also switches to a simpler PHP-based API library.