Build a REST API with MariaDB ,Python, Django

🚀 Build a REST API with MariaDB, Python, & Django 🌟

Course Headline:

Dive into the World of APIs - Build a RESTful API from Scratch using MariaDB, Python, and Django!

API (Application Programming Interface) 🤖 is a set of protocols and tools for building application software. It allows for interaction between different software applications. In this course, we'll learn to craft an API that embodies the essence of Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations, enabling you to handle data efficiently.

Course Description:

API stands for Application Programming Interface. It acts as a messenger between applications, facilitating communication and data exchange. When constructing APIs, our focus is on creating models that support these four fundamental functions - Create, Read, Update, and Delete. This ensures that the API can manage data effectively throughout its lifecycle.

In this comprehensive course, we will be leveraging a robust set of technologies to build a RESTful API:

• Python: A versatile programming language known for its readability and simplicity.
• Django: A high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
• Django Rest Framework (DRF): A powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs in Django.
• MariaDB: An open-source relational database management system that is a fork of MySQL.
• mysqlclient adapter: A driver that allows Python to interact with MariaDB.
• django-cors-headers: A package used to express Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) headers in Django projects.

What You Will Learn:

✅ Environment Setup: Understand how to create and activate a virtual environment to isolate your Python projects.

✅ Django Installation: Get hands-on with installing Django, the backbone of our web application.

✅ Django REST Framework (DRF): Discover how to integrate DRF, which simplifies the process of building complex Web APIs.

✅ Project & App Creation: Learn the steps to create a new Django Project and a new Django App, and how to register these applications.

✅ Database Setup with MySQL: Configure and work with a MariaDB database within your Django application.

✅ Migrations: Master the art of creating and applying database migrations to manage your database schema changes.

✅ Django Models: Create and define data models, and learn how to migrate them to MySQL.

✅ Serializer Creation: Implement serializer classes to convert complex data types to native Python datatypes that can be easily rendered into JSON.

✅ API Views & URL Mapping: Develop views that will handle API requests and map these views to specific URLs.

✅ Object Creation & CRUD Operations: Learn how to create model objects and perform the full suite of CRUD operations.

✅ Testing APIs: Utilize tools like Postman to test your API endpoints and ensure they are functioning correctly for all CRUD operations.

✅ Processing HTTP Requests: Understand how Django Rest Framework processes different types of HTTP requests and responds accordingly.

By the end of this course, you will not only have a solid understanding of building RESTful APIs using Python, Django, and MariaDB but also be equipped with the practical skills to create your own API that can handle real-world applications. Let's embark on this exciting journey together! 🛫

Enroll now and start transforming your coding skills into a powerful tool for building scalable, maintainable, and efficient REST APIs! 🎓✨