Pro REST API Development with Node.js

Pro REST API Development with Node.js is your guide to managing and understanding the full capabilities of successful REST development. API design is a hot topic in the programming world, but not many resources exist for developers to really understand how you can leverage the advantages. This book...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Doglio, Fernando. author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : Apress 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:The expert's voice in web development
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629764706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About the Author; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Rest 101; Where Did It All Start?; REST Constraints; Client-Server; Stateless; Cacheable; Uniform Interface; Layered System; Code-on-Demand; Resources, Resources, Resources; Representations; Content Negotiation; Using File Extensions; Resource Identifier; Actions; Complex Actions; Hypermedia in the Response and Main Entry Point; A Few Notes on HAL; Status Codes; REST vs. the Past; Summary; Chapter 2: API Design Best Practices; What Defines a Good API?; Developer Friendly; Communication's Protocol
  • Easy-to-Remember Access PointsUniform Interface; Transport Language; Why JSON?; Extensibility; How Is Extensibility Managed?; Up-to-Date Documentation; Proper Error Handling; Phase 1: Development of the Client; Phase 2: The Client Is Implemented and Being Used by End Users; Multiple SDK/Libraries; Security; Accessing the System; Almost Stateless Methods; Basic Auth with TSL; Digest Auth; OAuth 1.0a; OAuth 2.0; A Stateless Alternative; Scalability; Summary; Chapter 3: Node.js and REST; Asynchronous Programming; Async Advanced; Parallel Flow; Serial Flow; Asynchronous I/O
  • Async I/O vs. Sync I/OSimplicity; Dynamic Typing; Object-Oriented Programming Simplified; Prototypal Inheritance; Functional Programming Support; Duck Typing; Native Support for JSON; npm: The Node Package Manager; Who's Using Node.js?; Summary; Chapter 4: Architecting a REST API; The Request Handler, the Pre-Process Chain, and the Routes Handler; MVC: a.k.a. Model-View-Controller; Alternatives to MVC; Hierarchical MVC; Model-View-ViewModel; Model-View-Adapter; Response Handler; Summary; Chapter 5: Working with Modules; Our Alternatives; Request/Response Handling; Routes Handling; Middleware
  • Up-to-Date DocumentationHypermedia on the Response; Response and Request validation; The List of Modules; HAPI; Code Examples; Express.js; Code Examples; Restify; Code Examples; Naming Routes; Versioning Routes; Content Negotiation; Vatican.js; Code Examples; swagger-node-express; Code Examples; I/ODocs; Code Examples; Halson; Code Examples; HAL; Code Examples; JSON-Gate; Code Examples; TV4; Code Examples; Summary; Chapter 6: Planning Your REST API; The Problem; The Specifications; Keeping Track of Stock per Store; UML Diagram; Choosing a Database Storage System; Fast Integration
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