Restful API Web App

Refactoring the project RESTFull API with NodeJS and Express in a functional web application.

You can find here out how this project is done.

You can have a look at the live demo of this project here

Contributers are:

1. Sayed Kazimi
2. Feruz
3. Abdulhamid
4. Harun
5. Pavel

Learning objectives are:

Programming Skills

• Comfortably work with the file system
• Explain "persistence"
• Build basic fullstack projects (SPA/API) that save to the file system
• Write RESTful APIs for simple data relationships
• Using NPM Packages in your projects
• Using Postman to develop APIs without a frontend
• Running and writing tests for API routes
• Documenting your code with JSDoc

Native Node.js

• Node.js CLI scripts
  • argsv - Use command line arguments in Node
• Native Node.js modules
  • assert - Test values in Node.js
  • fs - Read & write form the file system
  • path - Manipulate file paths
  • util.promisify - Convert functions that take callbacks into Promises

NPM Packages

• for fun:
  • cowsay - make cows say things
• for serious:
  • node-fetch - Make API requests from Node
  • express - Minimalist web framework for node
  • body-parser - Parse HTTP request body into JS object
  • cors - Cross Origin Resource Sharing for Express
  • morgan - logging for Express
  • joi - JSON schemas & validation

Development Tools

• JSDoc - Generate documentation for your projects
• Postman - Test your APIs without a frontend

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