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Backend development with Node.js and REST APIs

Build and reason about production APIs: how HTTP and REST work, Express structure, validation and errors, authentication with sessions and JWT, databases, caching, security and scaling, with the Node internals interviewers ask about.

12 min · 5 lessons

Lessons

  1. 1HTTP and REST: the contract between client and server2 min
  2. 2Node.js internals and Express structure3 min
  3. 3Authentication, authorisation and security3 min
  4. 4Databases, caching and background jobs2 min
  5. 5Testing, deployment and scaling an API2 min

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