NodeJS REST API

A REST API using NodeJS and Express.

In this I am going to create an API to display, update, post and delete movies.

Installation

You can use whatever package manager that you want. I am going to show it with npm.

# Using -E to install exact version (best practice for production dependencies)
npm install express zod -E

# Dev dependencies
npm install -D eslint

Eslint configuration (optional)

In my case a like to use a separate file for the linter, in this case .eslintrc.json and .eslintignore.

I like using standar as a base configuration.

npm init @eslint/config
# After hitting <enter> select how you want it to be configured

Usage

As I am using the REST arquitecture every resource is an endpoint. In this case movies is the resource and the specific movie is going to be another endpoint.

Endpoints

• http://localhost:/movies
• http://localhost:/movies/:id

In the case there is a need for filtering a genre in the list of movies, we could treat it as another resource but in this case is going to be a query paramater to filter.

• http://localhost:/movies?genre=