Application Programming Interface using NodeJs, ExpressJs, TypeScript, MongoDB and Zod.

Required Packages

Adding Production Dependencies

npm i express zod config cors express mongoose pino pino-pretty dayjs bcrypt jsonwebtoken lodash nanoid

Adding Dev Dependencies

npm i @types/body-parser @types/config @types/cors @types/express @types/node @types/pino @types/bcrypt @types/jsonwebtoken @types/lodash @types/nanoid ts-node-dev typescript -D

Requirements

• A running instance of MongoDB

• Postman

• An IDE or text editor (VS Code)

• A web browser

• A package manager such as NPM or Yarn

• Node.js installed

• Testing the API with Jest

• Build a React.js user interface

• Add Prometheus metrics to the API

• Deploy the API with Caddy & Docker

• Add Google OAuth

Concepts

• REST API principals
  • CRUD
  • HTTP methods
• JWT & refresh tokens
• Request validation

Technologies

• Node.js
• MongoDB with Mongoose
• TypeScript
• Express.js & Express.js middleware
• Zod validation

Data flow

Access & refresh token flow