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Introduction to REST APIs

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0:54 with Alena Holligan

Great! You've made it through to the end of our tour of what makes up a REST API. So where do you go from here?

I would suggest you take some time to play around with Postman and some of the more commonly used APIs: such as google and twitter. They can give you some fun content to add to your application and they have some fairly good documentation. After playing around with Postman, you'll be ready to use your language of choice to build a client to consume these services.

Besides consuming existing APIs, you're also ready to dive into our language specific courses for building your own API. You'll be using Postman to test your own endpoints and validate your user experience. I've included lots of links in the notes to documentation and courses to help your on your journey.

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    Great, you've made it through to the end of our tour of what makes up a REST API. 0:00
    So where do we go from here? 0:05
    I'd suggest that you take some time to play around with Postman and 0:07
    some of the more commonly used APIs, such as Google and Twitter. 0:10
    They can give you some fun content to add to your application, and 0:14
    they have some fairly good documentation. 0:18
    After playing around with Postman, you'll be ready to use your language of choice to 0:21
    build a client to consume these services. 0:25
    Besides consuming existing APIs, you're also ready to dive into 0:28
    our language specific courses for building your own API. 0:32
    You'll be using Postman to test your own endpoints and 0:37
    validate your user experience. 0:40
    I've included lots of links in the notes to documentation and 0:43
    courses to help you on your journey. 0:46
    Thanks for learning about REST APIs with me. 0:49
    I can't wait to see what you'll come up with. 0:52

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