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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have talked about starting from scratch with TypeScript by passing through the installation and configuration of Node.js. We also presented the Express.js server using Node.js and our first hello world application. To get all of the necessary tools installed, we talked about npm and how powerful this tool is during the development process.

After we installed Node.js, we walked through TypeScript's installation and preparing the development environment by using VS Code and the basics of TypeScript, such as configuring Linters to help us with patterns and formatting your coding environment for better coding.

The last part of this chapter covered testing tools, different types of tests, how to set up and debug using VS Code, and how to define build tasks for transpiling TypeScript code and building the application.

The next chapter will walk you through...