W03 Learning Activity: REST, Alternatives, and Validation
Overview
Welcome to Week 03! This week, you'll start a new project of your choosing. You will also learn how to add validation to your routes, and how to handle errors in your routes.
Topics for this lesson:
- Services and Standards
- Types of Data
- Validation
- Error Handling
Learning Material
Resources for this lesson are accessible to you in this repository
JSON and REST compared to other approaches
In this course, you will use JSON and REST which are the most common ways to build APIs. There are other approaches, many of which were more popular in the past. The following topics help you understand some of these other approaches and how they compare to JSON and REST, so you can understand the benefits of the approach you will be using.
REST Overview
Validation
Validating data and handling errors are critical in Web development. The following resources will help prepare you to add this to your project.
Validation
Error Handling
Submission
When you have completed all of the learning activities for this week, you will return to Canvas and submit the associated quiz there.
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