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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with TypeScript 3

By : Biharck Muniz Araújo
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Book Image

Hands-On RESTful Web Services with TypeScript 3

5 (1)
By: Biharck Muniz Araújo

Overview of this book

In the world of web development, leveraging data is the key to developing comprehensive applications, and RESTful APIs help you to achieve this systematically. This book will guide you in designing and developing web services with the power of TypeScript 3 and Node.js. You'll design REST APIs using best practices for request handling, validation, authentication, and authorization. You'll also understand how to enhance the capabilities of your APIs with ODMs, databases, models and views, as well as asynchronous callbacks. This book will guide you in securing your environment by testing your services and initiating test automation with different testing approaches. Furthermore, you'll get to grips with developing secure, testable, and more efficient code, and be able to scale and deploy TypeScript 3 and Node.js-powered RESTful APIs on cloud platforms such as the Google Cloud Platform. Finally, the book will help you explore microservices and give you an overview of what GraphQL can allow you to do. By the end of this book, you will be able to use RESTful web services to create your APIs for mobile and web apps and other platforms.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Unraveling API Design
5
Section 2: Developing RESTful Web Services
10
Section 3: Enhancing RESTful Web Services
15
Section 4: Extending the Capabilities of RESTful Web Services

Chapter 2

  1. It means that this operation will retrieve a list of users from 200 until 219: 20 users.
  2. The URL should look as follows:
https://<URI>/users?sort=first-name,last-name
  1. The three main aspects of good resource naming are as follows:
  • Understandability: Both the server and the client should be able to understand and utilize the representation format of the resource.
  • Completeness: The format should be able to represent a resource completely.
  • Linkability: A resource can have a link to another resource.
  1. No. The URI needs to always be written in the plural.
  2. The recommendation is to keep the version in the URL, even though header-based versioning is more RESTful.
  3. The five HTTP status code classes are as follows:
  • 1xx: Informational
  • 2xx: Success
  • 3xx: Redirection
  • 4xx: Client Error
  • 5xx: Server Error
  1. 204: No content.
  2. 429: Too Many Requests.
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