RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10电子书

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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 Third Edition

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REST – What You Did Not Know

REST fundamentals

Principle 1 – Everything is a resource

Principle 2 – Each resource is identifiable by a unique identifier

Principle 3 – Manipulate resources via standard HTTP methods

Principle 4 – Resources can have multiple representations

Principle 5 – Communicate with resources in a stateless manner

The REST goals

Separation of the representation and the resource

Visibility

Reliability

Scalability and performance

Working with WADL

Documenting RESTful APIs with Swagger

Taking advantage of the existing infrastructure

Summary

Getting Started with Node.js

Installing Node.js

Npm

Installing the Express framework and other modules

Setting up a development environment

Handling HTTP requests

Modularizing code

Testing Node.js

Working with mock objects

Deploying an application

Nodejitsu

Microsoft Azure

Heroku

Self-test questions

Summary

Building a Typical Web API

Specifying the API

Implementing routes

Querying the API using test data

Content negotiation

API versioning

Self-test questions

Summary

Using NoSQL Databases

MongoDB – a document store database

Database modeling with Mongoose

Testing a Mongoose model with Mocha

Creating a user-defined model around a Mongoose model

Wiring up a NoSQL database module to Express

Self-test questions

Summary

Restful API Design Guidelines

Endpoint URLs and HTTP status codes best practices

Extensibility and versioning

Linked data

Summary

Implementing a Full Fledged RESTful Service

Working with arbitrary data

Linking

Implementing paging and filtering

Caching

Supplying the Cache-Control header in Express applications

Discovering and exploring RESTful services

Summary

Preparing a RESTful API for Production

Documenting RESTful APIs

Testing RESTful APIs with Mocha

The microservices revolution

Summary

Consuming a RESTful API

Consuming RESTful services with jQuery

Troubleshooting and identifying problems on the wire

Cross Origin Resource Sharing

Content Delivery Networks

Handling HTTP status codes on the client side

Summary

Securing the Application

Authentication

Basic authentication

Passport

Passport's basic authentication strategy

Passport's OAuth Strategy

Passport's third-party authentication strategies

Authorization

Transport layer security

Self-test questions

Summary

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