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Node.js: Tools & Skills, 2nd Edition
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Node.js: Tools & Skills, 2nd Edition

by James Hibbard, Michael Wanyoike, Nilson Jacques, Jay Raj, Manjunath M
April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
100 pages
1h 40m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 5: Top 5 Developer-friendly Node.js API Frameworks

by Michael Wanyoike

In the past, we used to build monolithic applications that handled views, business logic and data management in one single codebase. This architecture created a number of problems that affected an application’s stability, performance and maintainability.

Nowadays, many web applications favor a more modular approach. This typically involves creating a public-facing API that exposes endpoints for interacting with an application’s data. In this guide, we’ll take a quick look what an API is, as well as five developer-friendly frameworks we can use to build them in Node.js.

What is an API?

In simple English, an API (short for Application Programming Interface) is a server ...

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