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Overview In this tutorial, we will look at how to set up our project from my previous tutorial to use MongoDB. In the previous article, we built a REST API that served data to our blog application. We build out endpoints to create, read, update and d...
Overview In previous articles, we have built APIs and tested them in our local environment. In this article, we will deploy a back-end to the internet. Here's the project we will be deploying: https://github.com/DanielStai/jwt_auth We will use Rail...
Overview In this article, we will delve into authentication using JSON web token (JWT). User authentication is the process of verifying a user attempting access to an application or part of an application. In the API we will build, we will implement ...
Introduction In this article I will build a simple express server for the React tutorial by Net Ninja on YouTube. Here's a link to that tutorial. Here's how the front-end client we are building the API for looks like: The front-end app enables one t...
Introduction In this post we will create a skeleton react app and connect it to an express rest API. This is intended to be an entry point for beginner frontend or backend devs who want a sneak peek into how they can build fullstack apps. Without f...
Introduction In Part II of our "REST API with Express" series, we built a simple REST API with Express.js. In this article we will finish the API development process by testing if our API works as desired using Postman Postman is an API platform for ...
This article is Part II in our ongoing three Part series: Node + Express Basics. In Part I, we built a basic HTTP server and defined what middleware is, which is how express manages to abstract out all the details of dealing with requests and respon...
This article is Part I of a three part series in which we will use node + express to learn how to build a RESTful API and test it with Postman. In Part I we will have a look at how to set up a basic HTTP server with Node and Express Introduction We c...
This article is part of a series of articles aimed at getting you, the complete beginner at using the command line, from zero to hero. This article is a follow up to Command Line basics Part 1: Intro to the Command Line which you can read here The w...
