Building RESTful Web APIs with Node.js, Express, MongoDB and TypeScript

This is a simple API that saves contact information of people.

There are two versions of this project.

V1.0.0: you can run the server directly after cloning this version. It will create a simple RESTful API over HTTP.

V2.0.0: this is a more secure and control API project. You need to read the post on how to secure RESTful API application first. After that, you can run the project.

(Image from OctoPerf)

Contents:

• Introductions
  • Who is this book for?
  • How to read this book?
• Setting Up Project
  • Before we get started
  • MongoDB preparation
  • Step 1: Initiate a Node project
  • Step 2: Install all the dependencies
  • Step 3: Configure the TypeScript configuration file (tsconfig.json)
  • Step 4: edit the running scripts in package.json
  • Step 5: getting started with the base configuration
• Implement Routing and CRUD
  • Step 1: Create TS file for routing
  • Step 2: Building CRUD for the Web APIs
• Using Controller and Model
  • Create Model for your data
  • Create your first Controller
• Connect Web APIs to MongoDB
  • 1. Create your first contact
  • 2. Get all contacts
  • 3. Get contact by Id
  • 4. Update an existing contact
  • 5. Delete a contact
• Security for our Web APIs
  • Method 1: The first and foremost is that you should always use HTTPS over HTTP
  • Method 2: Using secret key for authentication
  • Method 3: Secure your MongoDB

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page