Note: This repository includes the postman collection for the finished API

Note 2: Make sure you add .env to your .gitignore before pushing any changes to your repository. You will also want to generate new public & private keys

• I'm getting a JWT malformed error: https://youtu.be/FzKrfwplips
• Managing environment variables: https://youtu.be/gfyQzeBlLTI

• Junior to mid-level developers
• Anyone interested in building REST APIs with TypeScript

• A running instance of MongoDB
• Postman
• An IDE or text editor (VS Code)
• A web browser
• A package manager such as NPM or Yarn
• Node.js installed

• Testing the API with Jest
• Build a React.js user interface
• Add Prometheus metrics to the API
• Deploy the API with Caddy & Docker
• Add Google OAuth

• REST API principals
  • CRUD
  • HTTP methods
• JWT & refresh tokens
• Request validation

• Node.js
• MongoDB with Mongoose
• TypeScript
• Express.js & Express.js middleware
• Zod validation

1. What are we going to build (Postman demo)
2. Code walk-through
3. Bootstrap application
   1. Setup express JS
   2. Create routes function
   3. Setup database connection
   4. Setup logger
   5. Validate request middleware
4. Registration
   1. Create user model
   2. Create user endpoint
   3. Create user session
   4. Deserialize user middleware (refresh tokens)
   5. Get sessions
   6. Delete session
   7. Require user middleware
5. Task resource
   1. Create task model
   2. Create task
   3. Read task
   4. Update task
   5. Delete task

• Docker (image)
• docker-compose (container)
• Caddy - Web server
• DigitalOcean

Note: You will need Docker installed locally if you want to test your Docker configutation

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