Building a REST API With Express:
Building a REST API With Express, Take the power of information into your own hands by building a REST API that you can use for business or for fun!
What you’ll learn
Node.js Rest API Product Structuring
Node Rest API Authentication
basic node.js, express developer
How to create an express API?
- Set up Node and Express
- Install and configure MongoDB
- Examine MongoDB records
- Update MongoDB records with Node
- Create a REST API with Node and Express
- Search for records in a MongoDB database
- Find and modify specific entries in a MongoDB database
- Decode and interpret POST requests
- Make POST requests using Node
- Document a REST API
Requirements
- Basic JavaScript
- Basic Node
Description
Have you ever thought about what goes on behind the scenes when you
- Buy a product
- Check the weather
- or use a messenger service?
None of these would be possible without APIs – Application Programming Interfaces.
We’ll build an API with Node and Express that is perfect for an eCommerce application like a store in this course.
You’ll learn
A tons of useful skills, valuable to any freelancer, front end developer, back end developer or full-stack developer:
- Set up Node and Express
- Install and configure MongoDB
- Examine MongoDB records
- Update MongoDB records with Node
- Create a REST API with Node and Express
- Search for records in a MongoDB database
- Find and modify specific entries in a MongoDB database
- Decode and interpret POST requests
- Make POST requests using Node
- Document a REST API
Building a REST API With Express:
There really is a huge amount of value packed into this course! It is amazing the sheer volume of practical skills we are able to cover in such a short time.
Node Rest API Authentication
Why do you want to expand your skills into a world of data, commerce, and communication? Sign up for this course today!
“Thou has no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with.” – MacBeth.
In rough order, we will cover the following:
- Understand what a REST API is
- Review the finished product
- Understand the key tools we’ll be using (Express, Babel, etc.)
- Understand fundamental REST terms (GET, POST, etc.)
- Build the application
- Scaffold Node environment
- Configure Express
- Create GET routes
- Create POST routes
Who this course is for:
- Front-end developers wanting to learn the back-end of commerce
- API developers from other languages who want to learn Node
- Freelance developers wanting to expand their skillset with useful and valuable API knowledge
Certificate
Yes
Course Features
- Lectures 15
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 2 hours
- Skill level Intermediate
- Language English
- Students 137
- Assessments Yes
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Understanding REST APIs
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Scaffolding the Application
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Requesting and Sending Data using a REST API
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Validating Requests and Modifying the Database in a REST API
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Downloadable Resources