What are some good resources to learn APIs?

1 pointsgrepcat4y ago3 comments

I'm not a developer. I actually work in identity and access management, tokens, authentication, etc. The closest I come to this would be powershell.

Some aspects of my job overlap with developers though. It seems that more often than not, tech that I'm responsible for implementing and administrating like secrets management, privlidged access and even directories all leverage APIs.

What resources would the HN crowd recommend for this non-dev to learn all about APIs?

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McNutty4y ago

I'm also a non-dev although I have a little Python experience, and I found reading the docs for FastAPI (a Python library to create API based applications) to be quite enlightening.

In particular the "Tutorial - User Guide" which walks you through creating a little app.

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/

iab4y ago

Have you tried playing around with Postman? They have some great material for learning about/interacting with (web) APIs

grepcatOP4y ago

I have actually and thanks for the suggestion. So far it's my favorite playground tool, but admittedly I've only used this one and SOAPUI

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