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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition

By : Valentin Bojinov
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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition

By: Valentin Bojinov

Overview of this book

When building RESTful services, it is really important to choose the right framework. Node.js, with its asynchronous, event-driven architecture, is exactly the right choice for building RESTful APIs. This third edition of RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 will teach you to create scalable and rich RESTful applications based on the Node.js platform. You will be introduced to the latest NPM package handler and understand how to use it to customize your RESTful development process. You will begin by understanding the key principle that makes an HTTP application a RESTful-enabled application. After writing a simple HTTP request handler, you will create and test Node.js modules using automated tests and mock objects; explore using the NoSQL database, MongoDB, to store data; and get to grips with using self-descriptive URLs. You’ll learn to set accurate HTTP status codes along with understanding how to keep your applications backward-compatible. Also, while implementing a full-fledged RESTful service, you will use Swagger to document the API and implement automation tests for a REST-enabled endpoint with Mocha. Lastly, you will explore some authentication techniques to secure your application.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Content Delivery Networks


When we imported the jQuery library into our client application, we directly referred to its optimized source from its vendor as <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js "/>.

Now, imagine that for some reason this site goes down either temporarily or for good; this will make our application unusable, as the import wouldn't work.

Content Delivery Networks come to help in these cases. They serve as a repository for libraries or other static media content, assuring that the needed resources will be available without downtime, even when something goes wrong with their vendors. One of the most popular JavaScript CDNs is https://cdnjs.com/; it provides the most common JS libraries available out there. We will switch our clients to refer to the jquery library from this CDN rather than from its vendors' website at <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js "/>.

While there is hardly anything...