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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

Building tasks for coding

During the development process, we may repeat a lot of processes that we could automate or at least group them into tasks to help ourselves out. This section is going to show you some ideas for tasks that might help you not spend so much time on a repeated process.

If you press ⇧⌘B (or Ctrl + Shift + B on Windows/Linux) from the global Terminal menu, you will see the build tasks that are available:

Global build tasks from VS Code

Selecting tsc:build - tsconfig.json will produce the .js files in the dist folder, as well as the .js.map files that will be created next to the .ts files since the outDir.

Another task that's available is tsc:watch tsconfig.json, which makes the TypeScript compiler watch for changes to your TypeScript files and runs the transpiler on each change.

There is also the possibility to define the TypeScript build...