How to write production-ready Node.js Rest API — Javascript version

A step by step guide with an example

Node.js Rest API

This article list out all the necessary ingredients for the production-ready Node.js rest API with plain vanilla javascript. I want to categorize this into two phases

1. Development Phase
2. Production Phase

Let’s not complicate things and create simple user API where you get a list of users with Get request and save a user with the post request. Since we are focussing on the Node.js rest API, let's go with the simple API. let’s download all the tools required for the project.

Tools Required:

• Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/)
• Visual studio code (https://code.visualstudio.com/)
• nodemon
• express
• eslint
• webpack

For complete project

git clone https://github.com/bbachi/prod-ready-node-rest-api.git

follow the below article for step by step process

Development Phase

• Initial setup
• nodemon
• Logging