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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js

By : Valentin Bojinov
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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js

By: Valentin Bojinov

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<p>In this era of cloud computing, every data provisioning solution is built in a scalable and fail-safe way. Thus, when building RESTful services, the right choice of the underlying platform is vital. Node.js, with its asynchronous, event-driven architecture, is just the right choice to build RESTful APIs.</p> <p>This book will be your step-by-step guide in the RESTful world of Node.js. It starts with the implementation of a simple HTTP handler application and follows its evolution to a completed RESTful service solution, which introduces you to the best practices in developing RESTful services.</p>

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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js
Valentin Bojinov
Mar, 2015 | 152 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
RESTful Web API Design with Node.js
RESTful Web API Design with Node.js
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
REST – What You Didn't Know
REST – What You Didn't Know
A brief history of REST
The REST goals
Working with WADL
Taking advantage of the existing infrastructure
Summary
2
Getting Started with Node.js
Getting Started with Node.js
Installing Node.js
Installing the Express framework and other modules
Setting up a development environment
Handling HTTP requests
Modularizing code
Testing Node.js
Deploying an application
Self-test questions
Summary
3
Building a Typical Web API
Building a Typical Web API
Specifying the API
Implementing routes
Testing the API
Content negotiation
Cross-origin resource sharing
API versioning
Self-test questions
Summary
4
Using NoSQL Databases
Using NoSQL Databases
Key/value store – LevelDB
Document store – MongoDB
Database modeling with Mongoose
Testing a NoSQL database solution
Content delivery network
Self-test questions
Summary
5
Implementing a Full-fledged RESTful Service
Implementing a Full-fledged RESTful Service
Extensibility and versioning
Working with arbitrary data
Linking
Implementing paging and filtering
Caching
Discovering and exploring RESTful services
Self-test questions
Summary
6
Keeping the Bad Guys Out
Keeping the Bad Guys Out
Authentication
Authorization
Transport Layer Security
Self-test questions
Summary
Index
Index

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