Build a REST API

In this course you’ll learn to build a REST API for a website so other technologies can interact with it.

This project is a continuation of the “Building a website with Django (Python)” Tutorial. where I show you how to build a website like open-api.xyz.

What you’ll learn:

• How to build and customize a Rest API


• User authentication via Django “TokenAuthentication”


• Generating Auth Tokens from a mobile app


• 
  CRUD functionality on a live website:
  
  
  
  
  1. Create blog posts
  
  
  2. Retrieve blog posts
  
  
  3. Update blog posts
  
  
  4. Delete blog posts
  
  
  
  


• Pagination (very important for mobile apps)


• Serialization of data


• JSON