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Our series are curated collections of lessons that walk through a specific topic from beginning to end. Series are a great way to learn a topic in a structured way.

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Lesson Operations
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Lesson Operations

In this lesson, we'll implement most of the CRUD functionality for our lessons, including creating, updating, deleting, and patching our lesson's tags. We'll also discuss why we'll treat lessons as a top-level resource.

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Fixing ESLint Integration
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Fixing Our ESLint Integration

I Ran into a ReferenceError and realized our ESLint wasn't working. In this lesson, we'll take a brief aside to fix the linting within our project so it works with ESLint v9

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Get Modules Endpoint
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Getting Just Course Modules & Lessons

In this lesson, we'll remove our GET module route, using the except method on our resource. Then we'll refactor to add a GetModules action

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Course Modules Nested Resource
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Course Module Nested Resource

In this lesson, we'll work on nested resourceful endpoints for our course modules. We'll add endpoints to create, update, patch, and deleting modules from a specific course.

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Patching Course Tags
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Updating A Course's Difficulty, Status, or Access Level

In this lesson, we'll add a specific endpoint with the ability to patch a course's difficulty, status, or access level with a new value so our users have a way to update these without needing to send the entire course payload.

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Course Modules & Lessons
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Getting A Course's Details, Modules, & Lessons

In this lesson, we wrap up the Courses controller by adding a show method that fetches all the key info for a single course. That includes its modules and lessons, all nicely organized and ready to use in your API response.

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Paginating Courses
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Paginating our Course List

In this lesson, we'll transform our courses list endpoint into a pagination endpoint. We'll check and validate our query string for a page and per page parameter that we'll then use to fetch pages of our courses.

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Creating, Updating, and Deleting Courses
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Creating, Updating, and Deleting Courses

In this lesson, we'll add endpoints to allow creating, updating, and deleting courses from our API. We'll then use this to stub a number of test courses to give us wiggle room to play with our pagination.

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Listing Courses
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Listing Courses

Our goal in this step is to add an endpoint that lists our courses. We'll then build upon this endpoint further with the ultimate goal of getting a list of paginated courses.

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API Authorization
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API Authorization Checks

In this lesson, we'll implement our API Authorization checks across all the API controller methods we've implemented thus far. We'll then create a specific access token for each operation (read, create, update, and delete) to ensure everything is working.

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Status CRUD
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Status API CRUD

In this lesson, we'll duplicate everything we did one more time for our organization's statuses.

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Access Level CRUD
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Access Level API CRUD

In this lesson, we'll walk through adding API endpoints for the full CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) flow for our organization's access levels.

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Deleting A Difficulty
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Deleting A Difficulty

The last CRUD method we need to add is the ability to delete our a difficulty by adding a DELETE API route, we'll take care of that in this lesson.

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Updating A Difficulty
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Updating A Difficulty

In this lesson, we'll add a PUT API route to handle updating our difficulties! This route will also accept in a specific difficulty id via route parameter to specify which difficulty should be updated.

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Getting A Difficulty
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Getting A Specific Difficulty

In this lesson, we'll add a GET API route enabling us to get the details of a specific difficulty by providing the difficulties id via route parameter.

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Creating Difficulties
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Creating Organization Difficulties

Next, we'll add a POST route and handler so that we can create difficulties from our API

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Listing Difficulties
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Listing Organization Difficulties

In this lesson, we'll begin work on our first CRUD-based API resource by adding the ability to query a list of all our organization's difficulties.

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Simple API Versioning
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Simple API Versioning

In this lesson, we'll implement a simple versioning mechanism for our API. Versioning allows us to safely make breaking changes without breaking our user's implementations of our API.

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