RESTful API with Express
RESTful API with Express Overview
In this series, we creates a RESTful API using the Express web application framework. Justin review the process of setting up a Node-based project as well as installing the Express Node module. After that, Justin discusses important concepts and processes that are key in developing a RESTful API such as creating routes that correspond to data resources, data modeling of those resources, use of middleware to make the API a little more robust, and adding a persistence layer to the API. RESTful APIs are abound when developing software, so if that sounds like something interesting to you, then join us!
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In this series, we're going to be
looking at RESTful API with Express.
And joining us for this series is gonna
be none other than Mr. Justin Dennison.
Justin, what can we expect in our
journey throughout this series?
Well, in this series, we're gonna
be focusing on building a RESTful API,
about how to design, what is REST, right?
What does REST mean when we're
designing a RESTful API?
So it's subject verb essentially and
you're like, whoa, I'm not here for
an English lesson.
Well, it'll be all right.
We're gonna build a corollary
between those two.
And then, well, our implementation
details just so happened to be Express.
But the first part of this series is kind
of applicable to other frameworks or
other web-based frameworks for
building APIs, right?
But then we're really gonna dig down
into Express, and start building
middleware that helps us handle bad
requests, help us log out those requests,
but also make sure we have all this
division of labor between, well,
what is routing our data to and from.
And we're building a JSON based RESTful
API, just in case you're wondering.
And also where is the data held?
How are we persisting that
data between requests?
And, well,
we're really gonna get down deep.
Justin,
we always try to define some expectations.
So if we are gonna set the expectations
for this series, who is this gonna be for?
So in all actuality, you need some
fairly significant JavaScript experience.
It would be nice if you already have
experience with Node JS as a platform,
not necessarily Express but the tooling
like NPM, that you can run Node,
that Node's installed.
And well, you've been programming for
a little bit in JavaScript, so
some of the constructs that I
use are not completely foreign.
Other than that, you should be fine.
If you're brand new though, right?
And you've never programmed before,
you've never seen JavaScript before,
this course may be,
you're just like, I have no idea what he
is talking about, crazy shenanigans, other
than the first couple of episodes that are
going to be kind of applicable throughout.
So you need to have some prior programming
experience and it would be helpful if you
know a little bit about web
programming and like HTTP as well.
Justin, a great many of the courses
that are in our library out
there are certification centric, right?
Somebody's gonna sit the hot seat,
gonna take that exam, maybe for
the purposes of moving into a new job,
a new role with maybe their current job.
Is this one that's gonna be
maybe certification-centric?
This one is not certification-centric.
Now, as it stands, maybe down the road,
it may become something like
that as the industry changes.
But at current time, there is no
certification about being able to build
a RESTful API, well,
particularly with Express.
That would be an oddly
specific certification.
This course is more about, all right,
I have some programing experience.
I've been doing some web based programming
before and I now wanna step up my game.
I wanna get better, right?
I need to know how to serve up JSON so
I can build client-side
applications that consume them.
Well, I built my API, I built an Android
app, an iOS app and a web app that all
consume that and now I'm starting to
build something a little bit larger.
That's the ultimate goal is to help
you start building that backend.
Now, it's not necessarily
gonna be the most robust one.
This series is about learning.
And if that definitely sounds
like something you would enjoy or
that you're at least very interested in,
then we hope to see you there.
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Overview
In this series, we creates a RESTful API using the Express web application framework. Justin review the process of setting up a Node-based project as well as installing the Express Node module. After that, Justin discusses important concepts and processes that are key in developing a RESTful API such as creating routes that correspond to data resources, data modeling of those resources, use of middleware to make the API a little more robust, and adding a persistence layer to the API. RESTful APIs are abound when developing software, so if that sounds like something interesting to you, then join us!
Learning Style
On Demand
Length of course
5h 7m
14 Episodes
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