Pro REST API Development with Node.js

by Fernando Doglio

Overview

Pro REST API Development with Node.js is your guide to managing and understanding the full capabilities of successful REST development. API design is a hot topic in the programming world, but not many resources exist for developers to really understand how you can leverage the advantages.

This book will provide a brief background on REST and the tools it provides (well known and not so well known). Understand how there is more to REST than just JSON and URLs. You will then cover and compare the maintained modules currently available in the npm community, including Express, Restify, Vatican, and Swagger. Finally you will code an example API from start to finish, using a subset of the tools covered.

The Node community is currently flooded with modules; some of them are published once and never updated again - cluttering the entire universe of packages. Pro REST API Development with Node.js shines light into that black hole of modules for the developers trying to create an API. Understand REST API development with Node.js using this book today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484209189
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	05/27/2015
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Fernando Doglio has been working as a Web Developer for the past 10 years. In that time, he's come to love the web, and has had the opportunity of working with most of the leading technologies at the time, suchs as PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Node. js, Angular.js, AJAX, REST APIs and others.In his spare time, he likes to tinker and learn new things, which is why his Github account keeps getting new repos every month. He's also a big Open Source supporter, trying to convert new people into it with the help of the site he created: lookingforpullrequests.com.He can be contacted on twitter at: @deleteman123When not programming, he can be seen spending time with his family.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: REST 101

Chapter Two: API Design Best Practices

Chapter Three: Node.js and REST

Chapter Four: Architecting a REST API

Chapter Five: Working with Modules

Chapter Six: Planning Your REST API

Chapter Seven: Developing Your REST API

Chapter Eight: Troubleshooting