Salesforce Developer Tutorial - How to create a custom REST Resource in Apex

In this episode we go over how to create your own custom REST resource in apex. We discuss why you might opt to create your own custom REST resource, what a REST resource is, create a REST resource together and then use postman to test our REST resource.

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Table of Contents:

0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Why create a custom REST Resource?
5:12 - What is a REST Resource?
8:58 - How to create a REST Resource
23:40 - Creating a connected app to connect to our REST Resource
30:00 - What is Postman?
31:35 - How to test your REST Resource in Postman
46:14 - Outro


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