Web development
Designing HTTP APIs
Resources, methods, status codes, versioning and errors. What a good API feels like to the person calling it.
About 8 hours of study.
Where to learn it
Read
RESTful API Guidelines
Zalando
General guidelines, REST basics, JSON guidelines
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Back-End Development and APIs
freeCodeCamp
From Introduction to Express to the Timestamp Microservice project
Node and Express, with projects checked by automated tests.
Other options
- Full Stack Open (read)
Part 3
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Which roles ask for it
- Backend engineer to get hired
- Full-stack engineer to get hired
- Android developer in the first year
- QA engineer / SDET to get hired
- iOS developer to get hired
- Salesforce administrator / developer in the first year
- ServiceNow developer to get hired
- Solutions architect to get hired
- Technical writer to get hired
- AI / LLM engineer to get hired
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