API Development with TypeSpec

Course details

Embark on your journey into the world of API development with TypeSpec, the modern API definition language designed to elevate your API design and implementation. In this beginner-friendly course, instructor Emmanuel Henri provides a comprehensive introduction to TypeSpec, showing you how to master the fundamentals of this powerful tool to create high-quality, interoperable APIs efficiently. By the end of this course, you'll be prepared to apply TypeSpec to a variety of real-world API development scenarios.

Learning objectives
Understand the core concepts of TypeSpec and its advantages in API development.
Learn the syntax and structure of TypeSpec, including its integration with familiar programming patterns from TypeScript and C#.
Explore how to use TypeSpec to define APIs that can compile to various standards like OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and Protocol Buffers.
Apply practical skills in using TypeSpec's tooling support within popular code editors like Visual Studio and VS Code.
Apply TypeSpec to real-world API development scenarios, ensuring data validation, type consistency, and adherence to API guidelines.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction to TypeSpec
02 - Course prerequisites

1. Setting Up

03 - Installing and setting up TypeSpec
04 - Core concepts of TypeSpec
05 - Project structure overview

2. Defining an API

06 - Defining service and namespace
07 - Defining model and validating data
08 - Defining routes and operations
09 - Add validation errors
10 - Compiling to OpenAPI

3. Tooling

11 - Compiling to JSON Schema
12 - Compiling to Protobuf
13 - Adherence to API guidelines
14 - Real-world API development scenario

4. Advanced Features

15 - Advanced features of TypeSpec
16 - Troubleshooting common issues

Conclusion

17 - Next steps