Building RESTful APIs with Node.js and Express

Design, Develop, and Deploy Scalable APIs Using JavaScript

If you’re ready to turn JavaScript expertise into production-grade backend systems, this is your roadmap. Learn how to ship fast, secure, and scalable services that teams can trust and customers love.

Overview

This IT book is a comprehensive programming guide and technical book that walks you through Building RESTful APIs with Node.js and Express from first principles to production delivery. You’ll master Backend Development through a cohesive, hands-on path that covers REST architecture principles, Node.js environment setup, and the Express.js framework, then moves into RESTful routing patterns, middleware implementation, and request and response handling with a clean, maintainable structure. Along the way, you’ll gain fluency in database integration across MongoDB and SQL databases; input validation and sanitization; authentication and authorization using JWT tokens and sessions; file upload handling; environment configuration; API testing strategies; error handling and logging; performance optimization and caching strategies; cloud deployment and production deployment practices; security best practices; API documentation; and microservices patterns—all aligned to the promise to Design, Develop, and Deploy Scalable APIs Using JavaScript.

Who This Book Is For

• Frontend developers expanding into the server side and seeking confidence in service design, with clear guidance on routing, data modeling, and testing that translates UI skills into high-value backend delivery.
• Engineers from other stacks (Python, Java, PHP) who want a fast path to JavaScript services and a clear learning outcome: build, secure, and ship a production API that scales and is easy to maintain.
• Ambitious students and career switchers aiming for portfolio-ready projects—use the guided blog API and exercises as a springboard to land interviews and demonstrate real-world problem solving.

Key Lessons and Takeaways

• Build maintainable service architecture by applying RESTful routing patterns, layered middleware, and robust request and response handling that keeps your codebase clean and easy to extend.
• Implement end-to-end security with input validation and sanitization, authentication and authorization via JWT tokens and sessions, and production-ready error handling and logging.
• Ship with confidence using API testing strategies, performance optimization with caching strategies, environment configuration best practices, and cloud deployment techniques that support microservices patterns.

Why You’ll Love This Book

The writing is clear, direct, and practical—every concept is backed by real code, step-by-step walkthroughs, and an end-to-end project that ties everything together. You’ll appreciate pragmatic patterns for Express that avoid common pitfalls, plus checklists that reduce cognitive load while you ship features. The result is a dependable reference you’ll reach for during design sessions, code reviews, and production incidents.

How to Get the Most Out of It

1. Follow the natural progression: start with REST architecture principles and the Node.js environment setup, move through the Express.js framework and middleware implementation, then tackle database integration before adding security, testing, and deployment.
2. Apply every chapter to a small feature in your own API. For example, after learning input validation and sanitization, enforce schemas on all endpoints; when you cover error handling and logging, wire up centralized loggers and correlation IDs.
3. Reinforce learning with mini-projects: build a file upload handling module with image validation, implement a JWT-based session flow with refresh tokens, create a caching layer for hot endpoints, and document your API with a living spec.

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