Learn best practices to build an API using Node.js and Typescript. The intention of this book it’s not only to teach you how to build an API. The purpose is also to teach you how to build scalable and maintainable API which means improve your current Node.js knowledge. In this book you will learn to:

• Build JSON responses following JSON:API standard
• Use Git for versioning
• Use Test Driven Development to add unit and functional tests
• Set up authentication with JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
• Optimize and cache the API

All the source code of this book is available in Asciidoctor format on this repository. So don’t hesitate to fork the project if you want to improve it or fix a mistake that I didn’t notice.

Support the project

As you may know this project take me some times. So if you want to support me you can buy a version on Leanpub:

• English version
• French version (in progress)

Or you can support me with Liberapay:

Build book

$ git clone https://github.com/madeindjs/rest-api.ts
$ cd rest-api.ts
$ bundle install
$ rake "build:pdf[6,fr]"

You can see all build available with rake -T

$ rake -T
rake "build:all[version,lang]"   # Build all versions
rake "build:epub[version,lang]"  # Build an EPUB version
rake "build:html[version,lang]"  # Build an HTML version
rake "build:mobi[version,lang]"  # Build a MOBI version
rake "build:pdf[version,lang]"   # Build a PDF version

License

This book is under MIT license and Creative Common BY-SA 4.0