REST API Validation with Express Course (How To)

About this Course

Explore how to validate data on the server using a REST API developed with Node.js and Express. The API will allow you to create a user account and retrieve a list of user accounts.

Syllabus

The Importance of Data Validation

As developers, we should strive to create applications that ensure that data created and updated by our users is useful.

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What is Data Validation?
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Get Started with the Project
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Review the Routes
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Test the Routes
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Further Testing the New User Account Route
Data Validation Review

5 questions

Validating Data

Define data validation for required fields to ensure that new users provide those values. And learn ways to go further with validation using a data validation library or an object-relational mapping library (ORM) like Sequelize.

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