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Backend API Engineering with Node.js
Build HTTP APIs the way product companies do: correct HTTP semantics, clean REST design, secure authentication, and the logging, testing and resilience that keep them running.
About 1 h of reading, plus practice5 modules · 25 quiz questions · final exam
Skills you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Use HTTP methods, status codes, headers and caching correctly
- Design consistent REST endpoints with pagination, errors and versioning
- Structure a Node.js service with validation and central error handling
- Implement sessions or JWTs and defend against the OWASP API risks
- Ship with logs, health checks, tests, timeouts and graceful shutdown
Syllabus
- 1
HTTP, the protocol under every API
4 min5-question quiz- Requests and responses
- Methods and their guarantees
- Status codes that matter
- Headers you'll work with
- Caching
- HTTPS, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
- Summary
- 2
Designing REST APIs people enjoy using
4 min5-question quiz- Resources and URLs
- Consistent JSON
- Pagination, filtering and sorting
- Errors clients can act on
- Idempotency keys
- Versioning and evolution
- Documentation and contracts
- REST, GraphQL or gRPC?
- Summary
- 3
Building the service in Node.js
5 min5-question quiz- The event loop in one paragraph
- Project structure
- Middleware
- Validate every input at the edge
- Central error handling
- Configuration
- Talking to the database
- Calling other services
- Summary
- 4
Authentication, authorisation and API security
5 min5-question quiz- Authentication vs authorisation
- Storing passwords
- Sessions vs tokens
- Authorisation done right
- The rest of the OWASP API Security Top 10, briefly
- CORS
- Other essentials
- Summary
- 5
Production readiness: logs, tests and resilience
5 min5-question quiz- Structured logging
- Metrics, traces and alerts
- Health checks
- Graceful shutdown
- The testing pyramid
- Resilience patterns
- Rate limiting
- Deploying safely
- Summary
- ★Final exam & certificate15 questions · 30 minutes · 70% to pass · 3 tries
Your certificate
HireSol certified in Backend API Engineering with Node.js
Signed by HireSol and verifiable online with its own ID. Download it as a PDF, add it to LinkedIn in one click, and it shows on your HireSol profile to companies.
Questions
- Who is this course for?
- College students, freshers and anyone switching careers who wants a job-ready grounding in Backend API Engineering with Node.js. It's an intermediate course; every module explains the ideas with worked examples from real jobs.
- Is the course online and self-paced?
- Yes. It's fully online: about 1 hours of reading across 5 modules, on your phone or laptop, whenever it suits you.
- How do I get the certificate?
- Pass the quiz at the end of each module (70% or more), then the final exam: 15 questions drawn from a larger pool, 30 minutes, 70% to pass, 3 tries. Your certificate is issued the moment you pass.
- Can recruiters check that my certificate is real?
- Yes. Every certificate has its own page on hiresol.cloud with an ID and a digital signature from HireSol, so anyone can verify your name, the course, your score and the date.
- What happens if I fail the final exam?
- You have 3 tries, with new questions each time. If all 3 miss the mark, the course locks and you can unlock it again to start over.