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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js - Second Edition

By : Valentin Bojinov
Book Image

RESTful Web API Design with Node.js - Second Edition

By: Valentin Bojinov

Overview of this book

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 for the underlying platform is vital. Node.js, with its asynchronous, event-driven architecture, is exactly the right choice to build RESTful APIs. This book will help you enrich your development skills to create scalable, server-side, RESTful applications based on the Node.js platform. Starting with the fundamentals of REST, you will understand why RESTful web services are better data provisioning solution than other technologies. You will start setting up a development environment by installing Node.js, Express.js, and other modules. Next, you will write a simple HTTP request handler and create and test Node.js modules using automated tests and mock objects. You will then have to choose the most appropriate data storage type, having options between a key/value or document data store, and also you will implement automated tests for it. This module will evolve chapter by chapter until it turns into a full-fledged and secure Restful service.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
RESTful Web API Design with Node.js - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to protect exposed data by enabling a means of authentication and authorization. This is a critical aspect of any publicly available data service. In addition, you learned how to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks using the secured layer transport protocol between a service and its users. As a developer of such services, you should always consider the most appropriate security features that your application should support.

I hope this was a useful experience! You gained enough knowledge and practical experience, which should have made you much more confident in understanding how RESTful APIs work and how they are designed and developed. I strongly encourage you to go through the code evolution chapter by chapter. You should be able to further refactor it, adopting it to your own coding style. Of course some parts of it could be further optimized, as they repeat quite often. That is an intentional decision rather than good practice, as I wanted to emphasize...