Learn how to build a Backend REST API with Node JS

Build a backend NodeJS API with a React client

What you'll learn
Being able to quickly build a backend API for any kinds of projects
Software Architecture: Learn the n-tier and layered architecture pattern
Build a client React application and being able to plug it to an API
Clean code and good practices in NodeJS and RESTful API architecture
Learning how to create API endpoints, testing an API and secure an API
Calling an API from a client and how to deal with CORS
Axios library and Fetch Native JS API
React Bootstrap v5
Implementing unit tests to our API with AVA test runner

Requirements
Basic knowledge of programming (using a code editor, installing Web extensions, …)
Basic knowledge in CSS and JavaScript
Have an IDE (WebStorm, IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, …)

Description
Quickly learn the fundamental of building a robust RESTFul API with NodeJS based on an efficient professional architecture pattern, and then, see how to plug your API with a client which you will also learn how to build. A client built with the latest React and Bootstrap versions.

You will learn how to build a backend API from scratch and build a client that will speak to your API through HTTP protocol.

Communicate with your backend. HTTP and HTTP methods and codes.

How to validate the input data validation.

How to request some API endpoints easily

How to test your API gradually.

How to design a flexible and solid API architecture.

How to secure your API.

CORS on your API.

Building a client from scratch with React

Calling the CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete) endpoints from your client.

And so much more will be covered in this course.

This JavaScript course will also cover some great packages that will change your life during the development of an API efficiently.

You will learn to create very easily a design in a matter of minutes, without any complicated CSS (just a few reusable components).

You will learn how to embrace the power of "styled-components".

You will be able to add as many pages as needed in your React application thanks to React Router Dom.

At the end of this course, you will be comfortable enough to create an API from scratch by yourself, implement new endpoints, being comfortable with many packages (such as logging, rate-limiter, Yup schema validation, …).

And icing on the cake, you will be able to create a client frontend from scratch and use those endpoints to interact with the backend on your frontend JavaScript application.

At the end of the course, you will even learn how you can create different unit tests for your API.

Who this course is for
Beginners and intermediate developers
Anyone looking to gain more professional knowledge in JavaScript and NodeJS/React
Anyone interested in building a clean RESTFul backend API in NodeJS
Anyone interested in building a modern frontend React JS client