REST API Development with Node.js: Manage and Understand the Full Capabilities of Successful REST Development

by Fernando Doglio

Overview

Manage and understand the full capabilities of successful REST development. REST API development 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 completely updated second edition provides a brief background on REST and the tools it provides (well known and not so well known), then explains how there is more to REST than just JSON and URLs. You will learn about 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.

What You'll Learn

• Understand how REST and API development mix up with Node.js

• Create a scalable, technology agnostic, and uniform interface
• Prepare your services to be consumed by your clients

• Test and deploy your API

• Review troubleshooting techniques

Who This Book Is For

Any Node.js developer who wants to fully understand REST API development.

Beginner and Intermediate Node.js developers who are looking to fully understand how to create RESTful microservices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484237144
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	07/19/2018
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	323
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (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. He can be contacted on twitter at: @deleteman123. When not programming, he can be seen spending time with his family.

Table of Contents

1. REST 101

2. API Design Best Practices

3. Node.js and REST

4. Architecting a REST API

5. Working with Modules

6. Planning Your REST API

7. Developing Your REST API

8. Testing Your REST API

9. Deploying Your REST API

10. Troubleshooting