Pro REST API Development with Node.js

by Fernando Doglio

Pro REST API Development with Node.js is your guide to managing and understanding the full capabilities of successful REST development. API design is a hot topic in the programming world, but not many resources exist for developers to really understand how you can leverage the advantages. This book will provide a brief background on REST and the tools it provides (well known and not so well known). Understand how there is more to REST than just JSON and URLs. You will then cover and compare the maintained modules currently available in the npm community, including Express, Restify, Vatican, and Swagger. Finally you will code an example API from start to finish, using a subset of the tools covered. The Node community is currently flooded with modules; some of them are published once and never updated again - cluttering the entire universe of packages. Pro REST API Development with Node.js shines light into that black hole of modules for the developers trying to create an API. Understand REST API development with Node.js using this book today. This is book is designed for any Node.js developer who wants to fully understand REST API development. So often, the true capabilities of this method are not fully understood. This book will shed light on all aspects and make REST API development easy.

Genres: Programming

191 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 20, 2015

About the author

Technical writer, mainly focusing on Node.js and microservices architecture. Also working as a Technical Manager for BigData projects.

Reviews

[Łukasz Słonina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Introductory chapters are very good, unfortunately with the example book ends in the middle of nowhere (how to start the application?, how to test it?). If not the full source code attached, the book would be much shorter, like few blog posts glued together.