shikharx06 / learn-rest-api

a guide to learn about REST APIs from scratch

RESOURCES 📖

NOTE: follow these point below in the given order to make your life easier

• good read about REST API

• advantages of Rest API

• MongoDb is a noSQL database. What the heck is a noSQL database??

• fantastic Video explaining REST API.. In case you are lazy to read the docs.

• nodeJS setup and crash course by DevEd 👦

• Rest api tutorial by DevEd. 👈 In this video, he connects mLAB to his app for mongo database. But they have stopped accepting new users. You can use Mongo Atlas instead.

  • connect Mongo Atlas to your app
  • very old video showing how to connect your app to Mongo Atlas.. You can follow his coding methods. But not the way he connects DB because that's outdated.

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Tools you will need: 🔎

• node
• git
• postman
• vscode

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optional read and resources: (is it really optional?? 😬)

• vs code setup.

• setting up postman for api testing.. you can follow the series to learn about api testing.

• wsl2 setup ( if you really need this). You can work on windows with it too.

• diving deep into REST API full play list. Here you can learn about advance stuff in REST api including user authentication.

• important MongoDb data modelling good read

• MongoDb CRUD operations

• free course on mongodb data modelling

That's all folks. You are pretty much done here....