Making RESTful APIs is hard, really hard. There are a lot of concepts to know - resources, representations, HTTP methods, status codes, etc.
Course 1 got us really comfortable with all the terminology. So in episode 2, we're attacking the hard stuff:
- Using a serializer
- Token Authentication System (Silex's security system)
- Hypermedia versus media
- The HAL hypermedia type
- The HATEOAS PHP library
- The HAL Browser
- Embedding resources (versus adding links)
- Tricks with Behat for testing API's
- Pagination and filtering
- A lot of other pieces in between!
This stuff is not easy. But if you make it through, you'll be armed to attack whatever API need you have.
