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This course is designed to give a very cursory overview of Node.js and building a simple API server that can Create, Read, Update, and Delete different entries via the REST architectural pattern. The curriculum is designed around MongoDB, a document-oriented database platform that stores unstructured, schemaless data in BSON format. This course does not cover JavaScript syntax, style, or architectural patterns and assumes that you already have a basic understanding of basic UNIX-like commands such as cd and ls.
This course is written in ECMAScript 6 compliant JavaScript and uses modern features such as arrow functions, object destructuring and template literals.
In order to run the exercieses written in this course, please install the following software:
- Node.js - JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript Engine (at the time of writing, this course is built against v11.10.0)
- Git - Version control software for cloning this repository to run examples
- Insomnia - An API development tool for quickly testing HTTP requests and responses
- Optional: Visual Studio Code - Free, open source code editing software with built-in terminal and GIT controls
This course is split up into chapters that will cover the different topics. Here is an overview of how the course materials are laid out:
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├── ...
├── Chapter 1 # Chapter directory
│ ├── examples # Running examples of chapter materials
│ └── README.md # Written materials
├── ...
To get up and running with this course, please clone this repository by running git clone https://github.com/savvy-coders/nodejs-express-api-curriculum.git. Once cloned, cd into the root directory and install all the needed dependencies by running npm install.