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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

Logging

A good logging strategy will also help you to troubleshoot issues in addition to a good error handler strategy. Some pieces of information don't need to be sent to the end user, but it would be helpful for you to be able to trace all errors in logging files in order to understand what is going on.

It is recommended that you log every operation of an application. This log strategy means logging more than just errors that occur; it means that critical operations should also be logged, for instance, so that you can have more control over who is doing what for audit purposes. Applications can log at a code level (debugging, for instance) and at a user request level for audits and forbidden access.

Currently, winston is the most widely-used library for logging with Node.js, so we will use winston to implement our log strategy in this section.

To install winston, as with...