RESTful Web API Design with Node.js (v): Explore the practical sides of REST to build data-centric applications with Node

Saleh Hamadeh

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Video Apr 2016 2hrs 2mins 1st Edition

Saleh Hamadeh

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Video Apr 2016 2hrs 2mins 1st Edition

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Work through a series of guidelines and best practices to efficiently design RESTful Web APIs with Node
Understand the structure of APIs, their authentication protocols, and their implementation tools
This practical guide provides the knowledge you need to delve into the endless possibilities enabled by Big Data

Description

RESTful Web APIs allow developers to create unprecedented applications by leveraging the data on the Internet. Since JavaScript is the language of the web, building APIs using Node.js provides a seamless development experience on both the front end and the back end. This video course gives you an overview of a RESTful API and goes through the logical steps of building one. It explores three different APIs, focusing on their similarities and differences to effectively implement one. We’ll start off by defining APIs, showing how they can be built on top of HTTP, and listing the properties that make an API RESTful. We will develop Twitter Notes, a web application that lets its users leave notes for their Twitter friends. We will use Twitter’s API to implement a login flow and then design a web API. In addition to using Twitter’s API, we will take a closer look at two other real-world APIs—Facebook API and GitHub API. Finally, we’ll end up honing some best practices to keep the APIs secure, maintainable, and performant. By the end of this course, you will have a good grasp of APIs, HTTP, REST, OAuth 1.0a, API testing, and API security. Since the course explores three different REST APIs, you will reach a level where you will be comfortable using any RESTful API, even if it does not have an SDK.

Who is this book for?

This video course is for Node.js developers who know JavaScript and are familiar with HTML and CSS. Knowledge of REST or HTTP is not essential as this course provides all the background information required to get you started.

What you will learn

Define what an API is and how it is used in client-server communication
Explore HTTP Requests & Responses
Understand the architectural constraints and properties that make an API RESTful
Use Twitter's API to tweet and search for tweets
Store Twitter's data in our database to minimize the use of Twitter's API
Use Async.js to handle Twitter's API constraints
Test APIs using Postman and Apache Benchmark
Build the API on the server using Express.js and MongoDB
Find out about the Facebook Graph API, and its structure, resources, and permissions

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