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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
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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