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Beginning API Development with Node.js

You're reading from   Beginning API Development with Node.js Build highly scalable, developer-friendly APIs for the modern web with JavaScript and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789539660
Length 100 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anthony Nandaa Anthony Nandaa
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What This Book Covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Node.js, covers a few fundamental concepts in Node.js, basic Node.js code and run it from the Terminal, module system, its categories, and asynchronous programming model that is at the heart of how Node.js works, and what actually makes Node.js tick.

Chapter 2, Building the API – Part 1, covers building a basic HTTP server, setting up Hapi.js, building basic API with Hapi.js Framework, and fundamental concepts of web applications.

Chapter 3, Building the API – Part 2, covers introduction to Knex.js and how we can use it to connect and use the database, essential CRUD database methods, API authentication using the JWT mechanism, CORS mechanism, testing the API using Lab library, and test automation using Gulp.js.

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