Creating your own RESTful API can be a great way to build a business around data you’ve collected or a service you’ve created, or it can just be a fun personal project that allows you to learn a new skill.
Here’s a list of 20 tutorials on how to design your own REST API!
This list has been sorted by the programming language used in the tutorial, which makes it easy to find the perfect tutorial for your needs.
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Node.js API Tutorials
- How to Build a RESTful API in Node.js (with Express.js) – RapidAPI
- How to Build a Rest API with Node.js – RapidAPI
- RESTful API design with Node.js – Hackernoon
- Speed up your RESTful API development in Node.js with Swagger – Scotch.io
- Create a single-page web app with REST API backend – Microsoft
- Build Node.js RESTful APIs in 10 Minutes – CodeMentor
- Build a Node.js RESTful API and deploy it to an API app in Azure – Microsoft Azure
Python API Tutorials
- How to Build an API with Python (with Flask & RapidAPI) – RapidAPI
- How to Create a RESTful API with Python (Django Framework) – RapidAPI
- Building a Basic RestFul API in Python – CodeMentor
- Build a REST API with Django – A Test Driven Approach: Part 1 – Scotch.io
- Building RESTful APIs With Flask: The DIY Approach – EnvatoTuts+
- How to Build a Serverless API with Amazon Web Services’ API Gateway – Twilio
PHP API Tutorials
- How to Build a RESTful API in PHP (with Laravel) – RapidAPI
- How to Create a REST API with MongoDB – RapidAPI
- Creating a simple REST API in PHP – shareurcodes
- Laravel API Tutorial: How to Build and Test a RESTful API – Toptal
Ruby API Tutorials
- How to Build an API in Ruby – RapidAPI
- Build a RESTful JSON API With Rails 5 – Part One – Scotch.io
Go API Tutorials
Java API Tutorials
- How to Build an API with Java & Spring Boot – Java
- Creating A Simple REST Service Using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, And IAM – Finra Technology
- Building a RESTful Web Service – Spring.io
Elixir API Tutorials
ASP.NET Web API (C#/.NET) API Tutorials
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What are the best practices when naming your API?
- Chose a name that is easily discoverable and descriptive
- Capitalize the API’s name
- Remove API from the name
How to add API authentication to your API?
RapidAPI automatically gives your API both authentication and user management functionality. For developers consuming your
API, this provides a seamless integration experience. RapidAPI is able to authenticate requests for all of their API
connections using a single RapidAPI key. To learn more about API Keys on RapidAPI, head over to our docs on
API Keys.
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How to make your API public?
- Log in to the RapidAPI Provider Dashboard
- Navigate to your API’s Settings tab
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and locate the ‘API Visibility’ section
- Hit the Visibility switch.
How to invite users to your Private API?
- Log in to the RapidAPI Provider Dashboard
- Navigate to your API’s Settings tab
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and locate the ‘Invite Developer’ section
- Hit the Invite developer option
- In the popout modal: Search for the username for the user you would like to invite, select the user from the
dropdown, and press ‘Send Invite’.
What are the types of pricing for API?
All APIs on RapidAPI fall into one of three categories:
- Free APIs – APIs that do not require a credit card or subscription plan to consume.
- Freemium APIs – Paid APIs that include a limited free tier and require a credit card.
- Paid APIs – APIs that require a paid subscription plan and credit card to consume.
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Thanks lot!!
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Hey guys please help me how I can create my own API and pass through another API so customer enters information and on submission should pass through my API and another API should be process internally and shouldn’t be visible on Customer’s end. I’m running out of solutions for my query and haven’t find any.
Hey John, thanks for leaving a comment! I’ve actually done this myself in the past. What I’ve done is set up an API Proxy. The end-user would make a request to the publicly exposed API proxy, then the proxy would make a request to the real service to perform the desired functionality. Once the real service is done, it would respond to the API Proxy, which would then, in turn, respond to the public user. I’ve personally done this in the past using AWS Lambda functions, but you could configure an API proxy in quite a few different ways.
Cool blog post! I enjoyed the overview of making your own programming language.
I found a course very similar to your approach.
Keep it up!
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Tutorials are sharing right information. Very Helpful Blog. Thank You!
how can i learn how to create an API for a QR code generator for my website?
Here are some APIs that could help:
– https://rapidapi.com/unitag/api/custom-qr-code
– https://rapidapi.com/pierre2106j/api/qrcode
– https://rapidapi.com/neutrinoapi/api/qr-code
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Thank you so much for this information..
Thanks for visiting our blog! Glad we could help.
Thanks Alex for a great compilation. I just wrote something similar which provides a look at how to create an API in about 10 minutes with MongoDB Stitch… have a look. https://medium.com/@michael.lynn/creating-a-data-enabled-api-in-10-minutes-with-mongodb-stitch-6d23578fed6d
Glad you thought so! I’ll check out the blog, thanks for sharing 🙌
This article which lays emphasis on creating your own RESTful APIs truly fulfills the need of the hour since REST API being such a powerful tool crucial in web development services is capable of breaking complex tasks and making them simpler. Another aspect of REST API which I feel is crucial to cover here is about connecting it to Power BI which also is a crucial business analytic tool and a combination of both of these can do wonders.
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