Beginning API Development with Node.js

Summary

In this chapter, we have explored quite a lot. We started off with introducing Knex.js and how we can use it to connect and use the database. We went through the essential CRUD database methods. We then covered how we can authenticate our API and prevent it from unauthorized access, using the JWT mechanism. We also mentioned something important about CORS, how the browsers handle this and how we can enable this on our API. We finally finished off with covering concepts about testing our API, using the Lab library. We also covered, in passing, the concept of test automation using gulp.js.

In this book, we started off with learning how to implement the necessary modules to get simple applications up and running. We then moved on to ...