Overview
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Find out how to build a simple, RESTful web API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Building a REST API with Node and Express
- What you should know
- Brief introduction of the libraries
- Introduction to your project
- Introduction to Postman
- Install Node and Express
- Install Mongo
- Basic Babel ES6 setup
- RESTful APIs refresher
- Initial server setup
- Initial server files and folders
- Basic routing endpoints
- Basics of middleware and uses
- MongoDB basics refresher
- Database setup
- Schema setup
- Create POST endpoint
- Create all items GET endpoint
- Create specific ID GET endpoint
- Create PUT endpoint
- Create DELETE endpoint
- Static files serving
- Other potential libraries for API
- Next steps
