Beginner API development in Node, Express, ES6, & MongoDB

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: API Course Intro

Lecture 1: Intro to API Course

Lecture 2: What is a REST API

Chapter 2: Setup for Node, MongoDB, Postman, and other API tools

Lecture 1: API Tooling Intro for Node API

Lecture 2: Installing Atom – Code editor for API development

Lecture 3: Installing Nodejs & node version manager

Lecture 4: Installing MongoDB – noSQL database

Lecture 5: Installing Postman – Client to test node API

Lecture 6: Installing Node js packages with NPM

Chapter 3: Hello API

Lecture 1: Hello World API Example Code Along in Node

Chapter 4: JavaScript Basics

Lecture 1: Intro – Why Javascript for node API development

Lecture 2: ECMAScript Standards and ES6

Lecture 3: ES6 Variables

Lecture 4: ES6 Strings

Lecture 5: ES6 Operators

Lecture 6: ES6 Conditionals and Loops

Lecture 7: ES6 Functions

Lecture 8: ES6 JavaScript Objects

Lecture 9: ES6 Arrays

Lecture 10: ES6 Array Helpers

Lecture 11: ES6 'this' and 'bind'

Lecture 12: ES6 'Call'

Lecture 13: ES6 'import' and 'require'

Lecture 14: Exercise

Chapter 5: Creating our REST API

Lecture 1: Node REST API Section Intro

Lecture 2: Setting up our Node Project Skeleton

Lecture 3: Setting up MongoDB for Node API

Lecture 4: Adding Data (POST requests in Node)

Lecture 5: Retrieving Data (GET requests in Node)

Lecture 6: Updating Data (PUT requests in Node)

Lecture 7: Deleting Data (DELETE requests in Node)

Lecture 8: Adding features to our Node API and refactoring

Lecture 9: Exercise

Chapter 6: Authentication and Security

Lecture 1: Setting up our User Model for Authentication in Node

Lecture 2: Authentication Middleware and Securing Resources in Node

Lecture 3: Exercise

Chapter 7: Deploying Our Node API To A Live Server

Lecture 1: Node deployment: Intro

Lecture 2: Node deployment: Spinning up a Digital Ocean droplet for our Node API

Lecture 3: Node deployment: Digital Ocean droplet part 2

Lecture 4: Node deployment: Digital Ocean droplet part 3

Chapter 8: Creating an iOS app to make use of our Node REST API

Lecture 1: Building an iOS client Intro

Lecture 2: API Adjustments

Lecture 3: Data Models

Lecture 4: DataService

Lecture 5: AuthService

Lecture 6: Main ViewController

Lecture 7: LogIn ViewController

Lecture 8: AddFoodTruck ViewController

Lecture 9: Details ViewController

Lecture 10: Reviews ViewController

Lecture 11: AddReview ViewController

Lecture 12: Exercise – Extending our iOS API Client

Chapter 9: Creating an Android app to make use of our Node REST API

Lecture 1: Intro to Section

Lecture 2: API Adjustments

Lecture 3: Set up the Data Model

Lecture 4: Create the Recycler View

Lecture 5: Create FoodTruck detail view

Lecture 6: FoodTruck detail view Part 2

Lecture 7: Retrieve FoodTruck reviews

Lecture 8: Create the reviews Recycler View

Lecture 9: Create the Login Screen

Lecture 10: User registration

Lecture 11: User login

Lecture 12: Add FoodTruck review

Lecture 13: Add new FoodTruck