Build a REST API with Node.js, Mongoose & TypeScript
Note: This repository includes the postman collection for the finished API
Note 2: Make sure you add .env to your .gitignore before pushing any changes to your repository. You will also want to generate new public & private keys
Generate new keys: https://travistidwell.com/jsencrypt/demo/
Base64 encode the keys: https://www.base64encode.org/
Common issues
- I'm getting a JWT malformed error: https://youtu.be/FzKrfwplips
- Managing environment variables: https://youtu.be/gfyQzeBlLTI
Who is this tutorial for?
- Junior to mid-level developers
- Anyone interested in building REST APIs with TypeScript
What you will need
- A running instance of MongoDB
- Postman
- An IDE or text editor (VS Code)
- A web browser
- A package manager such as NPM or Yarn
- Node.js installed
What next?
- Testing the API with Jest
- Build a React.js user interface
- Add Prometheus metrics to the API
- Deploy the API with Caddy & Docker
- Add Google OAuth
Concepts
- REST API principals
- CRUD
- HTTP methods
- JWT & refresh tokens
- Request validation
Technologies
- Node.js
- MongoDB with Mongoose
- TypeScript
- Express.js & Express.js middleware
- Zod validation
Video structure
- What are we going to build (Postman demo)
- Code walk-through
- Bootstrap application
- Setup express JS
- Create routes function
- Setup database connection
- Setup logger
- Validate request middleware
- Registration
- Create user model
- Create user endpoint
- Create user session
- Deserialize user middleware (refresh tokens)
- Get sessions
- Delete session
- Require user middleware
- Product resource
- Create product model
- Create product
- Read product
- Update product
- Delete product
Data flow
Access & refresh token flow
Deployment
What will we use
- Docker (image)
- docker-compose (container)
- Caddy - Web server
- DigitalOcean
Note: You will need Docker installed locally if you want to test your Docker configutation