Lynda - Building APIs Using Hapi in Node.js

Size: 351 MB | Duration: 2h 23m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

With the current, mobile-first approach to development, it's crucial that you have a good API for your mobile and web projects. In this interactive, project-based course, learn how to create a RESTful API with Node. js and Hapi, a popular framework for building and consuming APIs, as well as how to interact with the MongoDB. Follow Kirsten Hunter as she covers the fundamentals of web API technologies, including the basics of HTTP transactions and how REST APIs work over HTTP connections. After this general review, she helps to bring the concepts home by guiding you, step-by-step, through building an application that integrates with the Fitbit system.

Topics include:

* Setting up the development environment

* Consuming an API using HTTPie

* Inspecting Mongo data

* Updating the server for MongoDB read functionality

* Setting up application endpoints

* Implementing user endpoints, progress endpoints, and promises