RESTful API Quick Reference

This book is a quick reference for developers, backend engineers, and computer science students. Whether you are learning RESTful APIs for the first time, revising for interviews, or building backends for your projects, this guide supports your journey.

Inside, you will find:

• RESTful API Cheat Sheet for key concept summaries
• Step-by-step guides to building RESTful APIs with Express
• Complete explanations of RESTful API Node.js fundamentals and advanced topics
• Integration with MongoDB using Mongoose for database management
• How to secure APIs with JWT authentication and protect routes
• Best practices for RESTful API design patterns to create scalable and maintainable APIs
• Input validation, error handling, rate limiting, CORS configuration, file uploads, and unit testing

By the end of this book, you will be able to build, secure, and deploy RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express for your web and mobile applications.

If you are looking for a RESTful API NodeJS reference that combines concise explanations with practical implementation, this guide is for you.