API design in Node.js with Express, v3

Scott Moss & Frontend Masters

Resources
Requirements
Course
Exercises

Resources

Suggested Tools

The following are suggested to be installed on your machine before beginning the course

Course

This course has two parts, slides and exercises. The slides describe the exerices in detail. Each exercise has a starting branch and solution branch. Example lesson-1 and lesson-1-solution.

Exercises

** Important: Please check out to each exercise branch as the course progresses.

Hello world Express

Note: Before running the tests for the exercise, ensure that mongoDB is running. Please run mongo in a new terminal.

branch - lesson-1

In this lesson you'll be creating a simple Express based API in node, just to get your feet wet.

install dependencies with yarn (prefered for version locking) or npm
create a route that sends back some json
create a route that accepts json and logs it
start the server

Routing

branch - lesson-2
test command - yarn test-routes or npm run test-routes

This exercise will have you creating routes and sub routers for our soon the be DB resources using Express routing and routers

create a router for the Item resource
create full crud routes and create placeholder controllers
mount router on the root server
ensure all tests pass by running test command

Create Schemas

branch - lesson-3
test command - yarn test-models or npm run test-models

In this exercise, you'll be taking what you learned about Mongoose and MongoDb to create a schema and model for the Item resource.

create a schema for the item resource
add the correct fields (look at test)
add the correct validations (look at test)
extra add compund index to ensure all tasks in a list have unique names
ensure all tests pass by running test command

Controllers

branch - lesson-4
test command - yarn test-controllers or npm run test-controllers

So far we have routes and models. Now we need to hook our routes up to our models so we can perfom CRUD on the models based on the routes + verbs. That's exactly what controllers do.

create CRUD resolvers in utils/crud.js
create controllers for the Item resources using the base crud resolvers
ensure all tests pass by running test command

Authentication

branch - lesson-5
test command - yarn test-auth or npm run test-auth

In this exercise you'll be locking down our API using JWT's.

create a signup controller
create a signin controller
create a protect middlware to lock down API routes
ensure all tests pass by running test command

Testing

The other resources don't have any test, go ahead and write some!

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