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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)
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Section 1: Unraveling API Design
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Section 2: Developing RESTful Web Services
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Section 3: Enhancing RESTful Web Services
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Section 4: Extending the Capabilities of RESTful Web Services

Creating resource URIs

Before we get started with this chapter, we will walk through the Swagger development from Chapter 3, Designing RESTful APIs with OpenAPI and Swagger, and understand what we are going to implement.

As you may remember, the case study for Swagger is based on a simple order system, which contains two main resources called User and Order, both of which have their own operations, as shown in the following screenshot:

order-api resources and operations
If you don't remember the Swagger definition, go back to Chapter 3, Designing RESTful APIs with OpenAPI and Swagger, to go over it in detail.
The order API is a simple case study that was created to guide you throughout this book, and so there are a lot of more complex business rules when there is an order system.

The following sections will cover route and resource creation with TypeScript 3, where we will...