Build a Backend REST API with Node JS from Scratch

Build a backend NodeJS API with a React client

Created by: Pierre-Henry Soria
Creative Software Engineer

What Will I Learn?

• Ability to build a backend API for any kinds of projects and MVPs
• Creating API endpoints, testing property an API call and securing them!
• Capacity to build a client React application and plug it to an API
• HTTP Client Axios package as well as Fetch Native JS API!
• Clean Code and Good Coding Practices in NodeJS and RESTful API architecture
• Software Architecture: Learn the n-tier and layered architecture patterns
• Calling an API from the client-side and dealing with CORS from the web browsers
• All the little things you ABSOLUTELY need to know for taking your skills to the next level and becoming an outstanding web developer
• Implementing several NPM packages such as Pino, Yup, Toastify, React Content Loader, and so on!
• Securing and optimizing an API on production with Rate Limiter, Helmet and Compression
• Documenting an API professionally with JSDoc and OpenAPI
• Use React Router for your React routes
• React Bootstrap v5 (in your React components!)
• Implementing Styled-Components in React components
• Implementing unit tests to the API with AVA test runner

Requirements

• Basic knowledge of programming (using a code editor, installing web extensions, ...)
• Basic knowledge of JavaScript and CSS
• A text editor/IDE (Visual Studio Code, WebStorm, IntelliJ, Sublime, ...)

Target audience

• Beginners & Intermediates (and any students curious about building such a web architecture)
• Anyone looking to gain more professional knowledge in JavaScript and NodeJS/React
• Anyone interested in building a clean RESTFul backend API in NodeJS
• Anyone interested in building a modern frontend React JS client
• Anyone who desires to build an API following the 3-tier architecture