From Zero to Hero: REST APIs in .NET

What is REST? (1:07)

The 6 constraints of REST (5:32)

Resource naming and routing (2:09)

HTTP Verbs are meaningful (2:05)

Using response codes to indicate status (2:26)

Flexible response body options (0:59)

Understanding Idempotency (1:40)

Using hypermedia for connectedness (1:44)

The different types of errors (1:28)

Section recap (0:53)

The system we will build an API for (2:17)

Creating the projects (2:27)

Defining the movie API contracts (3:28)

Creating a temporary database (6:23)

Creating the movies controller (1:03)

Implementing movie creation (4:26)

Introducing mapping (2:04)

Keeping track of the endpoints (2:17)

Implementing movie retrieval (4:35)

Perfecting the movie creation endpoint (1:37)

Implementing movie update (2:52)

Implementing movie deletion (1:32)

Why partial updates are not used (1:24)

Section recap (0:36)

Implementing slug-based retrieval (6:04)

Moving to a real database (1:39)

Adding the database infrastructure code (6:35)

Removing the old in-memory database (8:17)

Adding a business logic layer (4:20)

Implementing validation (9:37)

Cancellation token passing (5:08)

Section recap (0:40)

Authentication and Authorization in REST APIs (2:20)

What is the JSON Web Token? (3:58)

The token generation service (1:31)

Implementing JWT Authorization (7:07)

Limiting actions for an admin (3:39)

Limiting actions for a trusted member (2:36)

Section recap (0:38)

The concept of movie ratings (0:49)

Where should ratings live? (2:27)

Preparing the database (0:56)

Using the user id (3:21)

Updating the existing functionality to support ratings (5:35)

Rating a movie (8:03)

Deleting a rating (2:44)

Retrieving user ratings (4:29)

Section recap (0:43)

Filtering (8:07)

Sorting (6:35)

Pagination (9:19)

HATEOAS (5:12)

Basic versioning (5:06)

Advanced versioning (5:56)

What is Swagger? (3:58)

Integrating versioning in Swagger (3:37)

Integrating auth in Swagger (2:00)

Extending Swagger documentation (2:28)

Adding health checks (4:54)

Implementing Response caching (5:22)

Implementing Output caching (6:11)

Implementing API-key based auth (4:19)

Implementing multiple auth (4:34)

Section recap (0:57)

Why create an SDK? (1:13)

Creating the SDK project and the client example (2:03)

Introducing Refit (2:40)

Retrieving movies (2:00)

Using the HttpClientFactory (1:44)

Adding authentication (1:41)

Handling token generation and refreshing (4:34)

Adding the remaining requests (2:23)

Section recap (0:39)

What are Minimal APIs? (1:49)

Creating the new endpoint structure (2:31)

Migrating movie retrieval (3:17)

Migrating movie creation (3:08)

Migrating movie listing (3:10)

Migrating movie update (1:11)

Migrating movie deletion (1:54)

Migrating rating endpoints (0:37)

Migrating Auth (1:25)

Updating Swagger (3:42)

Updating versioning (3:36)

Updating output cache (1:03)

Section recap (0:34)

Course conclusion (0:23)