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Course Overview

Building robust, scalable backend services is a key skill for modern web development, and Express.js—one of the most popular Node.js frameworks—makes this task both powerful and approachable. REST APIs (Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces) are the backbone of web and mobile apps today, enabling different systems to communicate efficiently. Learning to build REST APIs with Express is essential for developers looking to create high-performance server-side applications that are both flexible and maintainable.

This course begins with a foundational understanding of REST APIs and the tools required for development. It then guides learners through scaffolding a real-world application, including project setup, configuring Express, database integration, and documenting the application. From there, the course dives into making and handling RESTful requests, managing product data, and constructing flexible queries. Finally, it covers critical topics such as request validation, secure route documentation, and data modification, rounding out a complete backend development experience.

By the end, you'll be equipped to design, build, and maintain a well-structured REST API using Express.

What You Will Learn

  • Set up Node and Express
  • Examine MongoDB records
  • Create a REST API with Node and Express
  • Find and modify specific entries in a MongoDB database
  • Make POST requests using Node
  • Install and configure MongoDB
  • Update MongoDB records with Node
  • Search for records in a MongoDB database
  • Decode and interpret POST requests
  • Document a REST API

Program Curriculum

  • Understanding REST APIs
  • Understanding the Tools We Will Use
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  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Initializing the Project/Configuring Express
  • Setting up the Database
  • Documenting the Application
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • ROADMAP - Requesting and Sending Data Using a REST API
  • Requesting and Sending Data Regarding a Single Product
  • Searching for Products by Ordinal Values
  • Searching for Products by Linear Values
  • Querying the Database for All Distinct Values
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Documenting a Secure Route
  • Modifying Data on a REST API
  • Summary/Homework
  • Chapter 4 Quiz
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Instructor

Daniel ‘Code Whisperer’ Stern

Daniel Stern is known in development circles as “the Code Whisperer." Daniel has been working as a front end and full stack developer in the tech industry since 2011. He's developed single-page applications for banks like CIBC, charities like the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, and at ad agencies like McLaren McCann, TraffikGroup and Olson. In addition to being featured in both CSS Weekly and JavaScript weekly, Daniel is well-known throughout the open-source community for maintaining several open-source tools, most notably the Angular.js and LESS-based tool, Range .css and the Angular .js audio tool, ngAudio. In addition to being trusted by the open source community to develop top-quality, functional code, Daniel has also been invited to speak at numerous conferences including Full Stack Conference 2014 in London, England.

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