Build a Backend REST API with Node JS from Scratch

🎉 Build a Backend NodeJS API with a React Client 🌐

Course Headline:

"Build a backend NodeJS API with a React client - Master the art of full-stack JavaScript development from scratch!"

Course Description:

What You'll Learn:

• 🌟 API Development: Dive into the core concepts of building a backend API from the ground up, ensuring you understand the fundamentals of HTTP methods and status codes.

• ✅ Input Data Validation: Master the art of validating incoming data to maintain the integrity of your application.

• 🔍 Client Communication: Learn how to request endpoints easily and make your client interact seamlessly with your backend.

• 🛠️ Testing Your API: Understand the importance of testing and gradually test your API to ensure it functions as expected.

• 🚀 API Architecture: Design a flexible, solid API that can handle various requests and data processing needs.

• 🔒 Professional Security & Optimization: Secure and optimize your API using essential packages, ensuring it's both safe and efficient.

• 🌍 CORS Implementation: Configure CORS on your API to allow or restrict cross-origin requests as needed.

• 🎨 React Client Development: Build a client from scratch with React JS and call the CRUD endpoints from your client.

• 📄 API Documentation: Learn how to document your API endpoints effectively using JSDoc and OpenAPI.

• 🛠️ Essential JavaScript Packages: Gain hands-on experience with packages like logging, rate-limiter, Yup schema validation, and more.

• 🎨 Styled Components & React Router Dom: Embrace components with Styled-Components and navigate through pages in your React application easily.

• ✅ Unit Testing Your API: Create unit tests for your API to ensure reliability and maintainability.

Why Take This Course?

This course is perfect for developers who are looking to expand their knowledge of JavaScript beyond the frontend, or for backend developers looking to add React to their skillset. You'll learn how to create a design in minutes using reusable components, without getting bogged down by complex CSS. You'll also understand the benefits of using Styled-Components and React Router Dom, which will enhance your React application's functionality and user experience.

By the end of this course, you will:

• Be comfortable creating a backend API from scratch.

• Know how to implement new endpoints with ease.

• Be familiar with various packages that will streamline your development process.

• Feel confident creating a frontend client from scratch and using those endpoints in your JavaScript application.

• Have learned how to create unit tests for your API, ensuring robustness and reliability.

Join Pierre-Henry Soriac on this exciting learning journey and become a full-stack JavaScript developer with the skills to build, test, and maintain both backend REST APIs and frontend React clients. 🚀

Ready to take the next step in your JavaScript development career? Enroll in the course today and start building with confidence! 💻✨