REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer, which is an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems. A REST API is an API that conforms to the design principles of the REST architectural style. REST APIs are sometimes referred to as RESTful APIs.

AdonisJS is a fully-featured web framework for Node.js. It includes everything you need to create a fully functional web app or an API server.

In this course, I will be showing you how to build a RESTful API with AdonisJS 5. If you are new to building APIs with AdonisJS, then this course is for you. This is a practical and project-based course where you get to learn by building. Together, we will build an API for a forum. We are going to look at things like authentication, pagination, filtering, and sorting. Along the line, we will cover RESTfull APIs best practices such as structuring endpoints, using correct HTTP methods, using correct HTTP status codes as well as response formats.

What you will learn

Here are some of the things you will learn by the end of this course:

• Build a RESTful API with AdonisJS 5

• Use API tokens for authentication

• RESTful API best practices

• Paginating API response

• Filtering API response

• Sorting API response

• and much more

Join me in this course, as I walk you through how to build a RESTful API in AdonisJS 5.