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Building Restful Apis With Express: // Build A Web Server

The document discusses building RESTful APIs with the Express framework. It explains that REST defines conventions for HTTP services like POST, PUT, GET, DELETE. Express is a lightweight framework for building web servers. It then shows code examples of setting up routes to handle CRUD operations on a courses resource, including getting all courses, a single course, creating, updating, and deleting courses. It also covers reading environment variables, using Nodemon to watch for file changes, and validating input with Joi.

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Building Restful Apis With Express: // Build A Web Server

The document discusses building RESTful APIs with the Express framework. It explains that REST defines conventions for HTTP services like POST, PUT, GET, DELETE. Express is a lightweight framework for building web servers. It then shows code examples of setting up routes to handle CRUD operations on a courses resource, including getting all courses, a single course, creating, updating, and deleting courses. It also covers reading environment variables, using Nodemon to watch for file changes, and validating input with Joi.

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Building RESTful APIs with Express

So, in this section, you learned that:

- REST defines a set of conventions for creating HTTP services:


- POST: to create a resource
- PUT: to update it
- GET: to read it
- DELETE: to delete it
- Express is a simple, minimalistic and lightweight framework for building web
servers.

// Build a web server


const express = require(‘express’);
const app = express();

// Creating a course
app.post(‘/api/courses’, (req, res) => {
// Create the course and return the course object
resn.send(course); 

});

// Getting all the courses


app.get(‘/api/courses’, (req, res) => {
// To read query string parameters (?sortBy=name)
const sortBy = req.query.sortBy;



// Return the courses 

res.send(courses);

});

// Getting a single course


app.get(‘/api/courses/:id’, (req, res) => {
const courseId = req.params.id; 



// Lookup the course

// If not found, return 404 

res.status(404).send(‘Course not found.’);



// Else, return the course object

res.send(course); 

});

// Updating a course
app.put(‘/api/courses/:id’, (req, res) => { 

// If course not found, return 404, otherwise update it

// and return the updated object. 

});

// Deleting a course
app.delete(‘/api/courses/:id’, (req, res) => {
// If course not found, return 404, otherwise delete it

// and return the deleted object. 

});

// Listen on port 3000


app.listen(3000, () => console.log(‘Listening…’));
- We use Nodemon to watch for changes in files and automatically restart the
node process.
- We can use environment variables to store various settings for an application. To
read an environment variable, we use process.env.

// Reading the port from an environment variable


const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
app.listen(port);

- You should never trust data sent by the client. Always validate! Use Joi package
to perform input validation.

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