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Building an API with Express

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Express is a well-known and supported framework for Node web applications. It provides a lot of excellent functionality to process requests, interact with other APIs, handle authentication and return appropriate requests for any client.
This course will look at providing an API for a specific application but will explore concepts that will be helpful in building a wide variety of applications.

Syllabus

  • Set up Express to Automatically Reload on Save with nodemon
  • Return JSON from Express and Handle CORS Errors
  • Serve a random static file with Express
  • Parse and Process JSON with Express
  • Create Custom Middleware for Authentication in Express
  • Create custom middleware for authentication in Express
  • Handle Syncronous and Asyncronous Errors in Express
  • Configure an Auth0 API Authentication to Use with Your Server
  • Add Middleware to Validate a JSON Web Token (JWT)
  • Get a JWT From Auth0 in Express to Be Used in Authentication
  • Create an upload route in an Express API

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Kevin Cunningham

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