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Building a RESTful API with Node.js and Express

Kingsley Amankwah on April 08, 2023

Overview Building an API is an essential part of developing modern applications. APIs are a way for different applications to communicat...
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Sergey Leschev

Node.js and Express.js are two of the best technologies to use in building a RESTful API. At my workplace, we have also used these technologies to build APIs due to their flexibility, speed, and ease of use. The article gives an excellent overview and step-by-step guide for beginners to get started with building RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.js.

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Kingsley Amankwah

Yeah NodeJs and ExpressJs are very flexible and an excellent choice for beginners starting out their in journey, thanks for finding it useful.

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NotFound404

Obviously aex is a better choice over express.js

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Kingsley Amankwah

Really

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NotFound404

obviousely, speedy, clean and async/await support, decorator support ,object oriented programming support

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Kingsley Amankwah

Okay I'll try it out and see

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NotFound404

Yes. You can evaluate it by your self.

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Kingsley Amankwah

Sure I'll do that

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Henning Summer

I'll try, remember nestjs

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NotFound404

I think nestjs is rich but includes a lot useless concepts from angular, somewhat mixing backend and frontend instead of abstracting the real backend web framework.

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CoderHXL

You can try x-crawl to help you get the data.
GitHub: github.com/coder-hxl/x-crawl

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Kingsley Amankwah

Thanks for sharing... I'll try it out to see how that works.

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CoderHXL

thank you for your support.

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Kingsley Amankwah

You're welcome

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\n C.M.C🐜💻

Valuable write up.

Ehn... Who else would ditch MongoDB over postgreSQL ?