Build your own API in Node

Code examples

• 💻 in class A2Z API Demo in class, in class A2Z API Demo deployed to glitch
• 💻 Sentiment API - demonstrates storing data in additional.json file.
• 💻 GPT-2 API - demonstrates connecting to RunwayML hosted model via node.js
• 💻 Counting characters API - demonstrates saving data to EnMap database
• 💻 All API Examples on Glitch

Full Tutorial Playists

• 🎞 Build your own API with node.js playlist -- this was recorded in 2016. Everything applies however it is not using fetch(), async and await. The equivalent example with modernized code can be found at the Sentiment API on Glitch.
• 🎞 Working with Data and APIs in JavaScript - This is a more recent set of tutorials recorded in 2019 building two API projects and demonstrating how to work with the basic neDB database.

Curated relevant videos

I'm selecting a smaller subset of videos to highlight aspects that I felt were confusing in class or that I wasn't able to cover in enough detail.

• 🎥 RESTful Routes with Parameters
• 🎥 Saving Data to JSON File with Node.js
• 🎥 Servers and Clients: Web applications with Node.js
• 🎥 HTTP Post Request with fetch()
• 🎥 Saving to a Database (NeDB)

2016 Resources

• 📚 Notes on Node
• 📚 Notes on API in Node