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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987306
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Up and Running 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Writing an Express.js Server 5. Dynamic HTML with Handlebars 6. Controllers and View Models 7. Persisting Data with MongoDB 8. Creating a RESTful API 9. Testing Your Code 10. Deploying with Cloud-based Services 11. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks 12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Index

What is an API?


An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of tools that a computer system makes available that provides unrelated systems or software the ability to interact with each other. Typically, a developer uses an API when writing software that will interact with a closed, external, software system. The external software system provides an API as a standard set of tools that all developers can use. Many popular social networking sites provide developer's access to APIs to build tools to support those sites. The most obvious examples are Facebook and Twitter. Both have a robust API that provides developers with the ability to build plugins and work with data directly, without them being granted full access as a general security precaution.

As you will see with this chapter, providing your own API is not only fairly simple, but also it empowers you to provide your users with access to your data. You also have the added peace of mind knowing that you are in complete control...

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