UDEMY 2021 - Build a Backend REST API with Python & Django – Advanced

David K Mar 28, 2020

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Create an advanced REST API with Python, Django REST Framework and Docker using Test Driven Development (TDD)

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What you’ll learn

Setting up a local development server with Docker

Writing a Python project using Test Driven Development

Building a REST API with advanced features such as uploading and viewing images

Creating a backend that can be used a base for your future projects or MVP

Hands on experience applying best practice principles such as PEP-8 and unit tests

Configure Travis-CI to automate code checks

Requirements

Basic knowledge of programming and building simple applications

Familiar with Django

Comfortable using command line tools (Terminal/Command Prompt)

macOS, Linux or Windows machine capable of running Docker (This excludes Windows 10 Home)

Positive attitude and willingness to learn!

Description

APIs are the unsung heroes behind the technologies that we all love and use religiously.

One of the most critical components for any tech-based business is an API. So knowing how to create an API from start to finish is a vital skill to have as a developer. You cannot build a successful app without a backend REST API!

In this course I’ll show you how to build an advanced API that handles creating and updating user profiles, changing passwords, creating objects, uploading images, filtering and searching objects, and more.

The best way to learn anything is to do it. So the practical application of the course — the project that you’ll build along side me — is an API. A recipe API, to be specific.

You will learn how to build an advanced recipe API that allows you to upload and store some of your favourite recipes from photos and the web.

You’ll learn how to create objects i.e. recipes with titles, price points, cooking times, ingredients and tags like “comfort food”, “vegan” or “dessert”. Think of it as a virtual recipe box.

By the end of this course you will have built a fully functioning REST API that can handle:

User authentication

Creating objects

Filtering and sorting objects

Uploading and viewing images

You’ll also learn, in detail how to:

Setup a project with Docker and Docker-Compose

Configure Travis-CI to automatically run linting and unit tests

Write unit tests using the Django Test Framework

Apply best practice principles including Test Driven Development

Handle uploading media files with Django

Customize the Django admin

Configure a Postgres database

This course has one singular focus: To teach you how to create an advanced API from start to finish using best practice principles and Test Driven Development.

This course is NOT FOR YOU:

If you’re looking for a course to build an API, a front end, and deployment

If you’re looking to build 10 different apps in one course

If you want to learn lots of different technologies and approaches to app development in general

This is a hands-on course, with a bit of theory and lots of opportunities to test your knowledge.

The content is challenging but rewarding. Ready for it? Let’s dive in!

Who this course is for:

Beginner to intermediate programmers who already have some understanding of Python and want to skill up

Developers proficient in other languages but looking to add Python to their toolkit

Created by Mark Winterbottom, Brooke RutherfordLast updated 1/2019EnglishEnglish [Auto-generated]