Build a Backend REST API with Python & Django – Beginner

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course structure

Lecture 3: Technologies

Lecture 4: Vagrant vs. Docker

Lecture 5: How to get the most out of this course

Lecture 6: How to get help

Chapter 2: Setting up your development environment

Lecture 1: Windows: Installing Git, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Atom and ModHeader

Lecture 2: macOS: Installing Git, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Atom and ModHeader

Chapter 3: Setting up your project

Lecture 1: Creating a workspace

Lecture 2: Creating a Git project

Lecture 3: Pushing to GitHub

Chapter 4: Creating a development server

Lecture 1: Creating a Vagrantfile

Lecture 2: Configuring our Vagrant box

Lecture 3: Running and connecting to our dev server

Lecture 4: Running a Hello World script

Chapter 5: Creating a Django app

Lecture 1: Create Python Virtual Environment

Lecture 2: Install required Python packages

Lecture 3: Create a new Django project & app

Lecture 4: Enable our app in the Django settings file

Lecture 5: Test and commit our changes

Chapter 6: Setup the Database

Lecture 1: What are Django Models?

Lecture 2: Create our user database model

Lecture 3: Add a user model manager

Lecture 4: Set our custom user model

Lecture 5: Create migrations and sync DB

Chapter 7: Setup Django Admin

Lecture 1: Creating a superuser

Lecture 2: Enable Django Admin

Lecture 3: Test Django Admin

Chapter 8: Introduction to API Views

Lecture 1: What is an APIView?

Lecture 2: Create first APIView

Lecture 3: Configure view URL

Lecture 4: Testing our API View

Lecture 5: Create a Serializer

Lecture 6: Add POST method to APIView

Lecture 7: Test POST Function

Lecture 8: Add PUT, PATCH and DELETE methods

Lecture 9: Test the PUT, PATCH and DELETE methods

Chapter 9: Introduction to Viewsets

Lecture 1: What is a Viewset?

Lecture 2: Create a simple Viewset

Lecture 3: Add URL Router

Lecture 4: Testing our Viewset

Lecture 5: Add create, retrieve, update, partial_update and destroy functions

Lecture 6: Test Viewset

Chapter 10: Create Profiles API

Lecture 1: Plan our Profiles API

Lecture 2: Create user profile serializer

Lecture 3: UPDATE: Bug in profile serializer

Lecture 4: Create profiles ViewSet

Lecture 5: Register profile Viewset with the URL router

Lecture 6: Test creating a profile

Lecture 7: Create permission class

Lecture 8: Add authentication and permissions to Viewset

Lecture 9: Test new permissions

Lecture 10: Add search profiles feature

Lecture 11: Test searching profiles

Chapter 11: Create login API

Lecture 1: Create login API viewset

Lecture 2: Test login API

Lecture 3: Set token header using ModHeader extension

Chapter 12: Create profile feed API

Lecture 1: Plan profile feed API

Lecture 2: Add new model Item

Lecture 3: Create and run model migration

Lecture 4: Add profile feed model to admin

Lecture 5: Create profile feed item serializer

Lecture 6: Create ViewSet for our profile feed item

Lecture 7: Test Feed API

Lecture 8: Add permissions for feed API

Lecture 9: Test feed API permissions

Lecture 10: Restrict viewing status updates to logged in users only

Lecture 11: Test new private feed

Chapter 13: Deploying our API to a server on AWS

Lecture 1: Introduction to deploying our app to AWS

Lecture 2: Add key pair to AWS

Lecture 3: Create EC2 server instance

Lecture 4: Add deployment script and configs to our project

Lecture 5: Deploy to server

Lecture 6: Update allowed hosts and deploy changes

Chapter 14: Summary

Lecture 1: Course outro

Lecture 2: FAQs