Building A Rest API with NodeJS and ExpressJS | Beginners Tutorial

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In this video I show you guys how to build a REST API using express and nodejs. At the end I also show you guys how to implement a mysql database into your project!
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Timestamps
00:00 | What is a REST API?
06:40 | NodeJS and Express
50:17 | Using MYSQL as Database
Tags:
- REST API
- NODEJS AND EXPRESS
- ReactJS Tutorial
- ReactJS and MySQL
- NodeJS Tutorial
- API Tutorial

[@AbdulAhad-rg3uy]

I've been watching videos the whole day trying to understand the basics of express and connecting to database , and this one is truly the best one out there .

[@PedroTechnologies]

Great to hear! I am really happy you enjoyed it!

[@MarioLariosOfficial]

I can't believe I haven't ran into your videos, they are the best explanations out there.

[@k303k]

Thanks for the video Pedro!!!

[@deetee2645]

Good stuff! Just one thing - you skipped creating MySQL DB server but understandable if it would've taken a while to explain that as well. For those who have docker you can run the following 3 commands to run a mysql DB image: docker pull mysql docker network create my-net docker run -it --network my-net -p 3306:3306 --name mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -d mysql

[@PedroTechnologies]

Yes! I pinned you in case someone wants to know this. Tbh I was in doubt on if I should have shown the implementation of a DB or not due to time. I chose to do so at the end but it came with the cost of not explaining everything thoroughly. THank you for posting this!

[@deetee2645]

@@PedroTechnologies For sure! I added exact commands that can be ran

[@ramgopal24]

Thank You Mr. Pedro Nice One !

[@itsnobledean9450]

This is the perfect introduction for building an API.

[@touche8020]

Great tutorial! Really appreciate it🙏🏾Just subscribed and gonna check out more of your videos!😁

[@ThColinPereira]

This is an amazing video! Thank you

[@nnabenjamin1738]

I love your tutorials

[@thangphan6047]

Thank you so much, really appreciate it :)

[@gloriajeptepkeny6908]

Thank you so much for the video ..the explanation is very clear

[@hijuliansosa]

Thanks, a really good video tutorial!

[@trijaymadhu4462]

Great Tutorial

[@ethanhunt937]

Well this is dope!

[@samuelonowuko110]

Really nice one. Simple and straight to the point

[@PedroTechnologies]

Thank you! Really appreciate!

[@shankarbaddi4424]

Explanation is awesome, easy to understand. Thanks for the video.

[@PedroTechnologies]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Tyz96ion]

great tutorial man! Love you

[@PedroTechnologies]

Glad you enjoyed! Thakn you for the support!

[@ashoklrawat2287]

i found your channel yesterday and now i'm watching all your video one by one...

[@PedroTechnologies]

Hahaha Welcome! I am glad you are enjoying the videos!

[@cristianpichatiesa]

This channel is awesome.

[@PedroTechnologies]

I appreciate that!

[@richardogujawa-oldaccount1336]

Quick Tips: Dunno if someone already mentioned these but... 1) You can bypass having to press Enter for all the prompts/questions you're asked when you do "npm init", if you do "npm init -y" instead. The -y flag means "say yes to everything." 2) If the server your running is set up in the default file or the entry point (to check what the entry point is just look at the value assigned to the key "main" in your package.json file) you could just do "node ." . The dot at the end just means to run default file in the current directory. Great video by the way Pedro, learned a lot!

[@sahilyadav3782]

Thanks a lot for the tips!

[@matthew423]

Thanks for this Excellent tutorial dude!

[@PedroTechnologies]

Glad it was helpful!

[@engespress]

That's a very good tutorial. Good error handling.

[@PedroTechnologies]

Glad you liked it!

[@CCIBN]

First of all, thank you for this great tutorials, it's a wonderfull experience to see how you teach:). It would be awesome for us, your suscribers to see you teaching us building a rest api, with react, node, mysql and using multiple tables to the see the associations taking place like one to many, many to many..or Join (INNER, OUTER, LEFT, RIGHT, etc..) tables based on id. Thank you once more and keep the good work!

[@PedroTechnologies]

Thank you so much! I have been planning on a video on associations, just don't know when I will be able to post it! However it will be pretty soon!

[@aneeqrehman4138]

i love your tutorials

[@PedroTechnologies]

Thank you! Really glad you like them!

[@Rakibul-Hasan-Mahin]

Trust me one of the BEST KZbinr, I am not getting why arent you in the spotlight? There isn't much resource about backend in youtube and you got them. Congrats

[@PedroTechnologies]

Hahaha thank you so much! I really appreciate the support!

[@Rakibul-Hasan-Mahin]

I would like to work on some kind of project with you one day. Best of luck with your future, you got any social media or sth??

[@usmanmughal5916]

Awesome Video :)

[@PedroTechnologies]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mathewsmachadoamorim5557]

Hey man, nice video for beginners! It would be awesome if you could make a video like this one, but using the intermediate folder structure for Express API'S that you showed on a previous video. I really want to know how a controller relates to a service, and so on.

[@PedroTechnologies]

Yes! I plan on making one! That project structure was based on the MVC model, so I should bring an MVC video any time soon!

[@ahmadfaraz3678]

Please create video on JWT authentication in NodeJS

[@PedroTechnologies]

Should make one soon!

[@rangabharath4253]

Awesome 👍

[@PedroTechnologies]

Thank you!

[@abhishekrawat8579]

hey pedro after useRef tutorial I came up with that it's very easy to work bhi dom manipulation in react... and before it I'm stuck in some point that how I work with document object. And after learning useRef hook. I can easily manipulate dom elements. Thanks buddy❤️🔥 And I watching this tutorial to learn more about rest api.

[@PedroTechnologies]

Awesome!! Really glad that you are watching the videos and learning from them!

[@Jimmy-zw9ve]

Man what are the odds? I just wanted to learn Restful API and here you are. I was so confused about the "stateless" in Restful and I searched online that using Json Web Token(JWT) for authentication is a stateless operation. I just followed your previous video about it but is that a Restful stateless example? Thank you Pedro for the tutorials!

[@PedroTechnologies]

Awesome! By stateless it menas that the backend shouldn't keep track of the state of the client. Meaning that if a user signs in with a JWT, then the client has to store the token. THe server must receive the token from the client and validate it.

[@brystyle]

Thank you for the tutorial! 😊 Pedro, 2 weeks ago you saved my university project with your React-Node CRUD tutorial. So thank you for that, too! I have a question. I would like to make an image gallery CRUD with image files and data like the picture's name, description, date etc. ) And I would like to make it with React, Node.Js (express) and mySQL, but I don't really find a tutorial with this combination. Maybe can I ask you to make a video about an image CRUD like this? If so, I would be the first one to watch it. Also I recommended your tutorials to my classmates and friends! 😊 (you explain better than some of my teachers haha)

[@PedroTechnologies]

I have a video on images in react! I use cloudinary! Here is the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j165mJSIrLyGadE . THank you for recommending the channel! Really appreciate it!

[@alanwalker5845]

omg which university is it that teachs React and Node.js?

[@brystyle]

​@@alanwalker5845Eszterházy Károly University in Hungary :P Unfortunately we just got a little insight in React. Then we had to learn from the net and make the projects by ourselves...

[@hosseinramezani1428]

excelent

[@PedroTechnologies]

Thank you!

[@itscartmanbrah4856]

Thank you for the tutorial man by the way what's the name of the color theme you're using ?

[@PedroTechnologies]

Glad you liked it! The theme is called palenight!

[@adante407]

Great tutorial thanks. Subscribed. 👍 how do you get the purple on VS code by the way?

[@PedroTechnologies]

Thank you! I use a theme called "Palenight Theme"

[@adante407]

PedroTech thanks will have a look. You got some great content. I'm gonna be busy for a while. 😀👍

[@ashoklrawat2287]

your video is very good and explanation is very clear... so please continue making video on MERN Stack and also React js with firebase auth and database...

[@PedroTechnologies]

Thank you! I plan on more MERN videos!

[@ashoklrawat2287]

@@PedroTechnologies thank u brother... And can you please make a video on how to implement quill js or draft js rich test editor in react with making a full blog web app... Because now I'm totally depend on your channel, to learn and become MERN STACK developer , you explain everything in a very simple way... Your are very good in teaching and explaining ..❤️❤️👍👍 thank you again brother for making videos for us.. thank

[@TheNamesJT]

33:00 couldn't you of used the npm package uuid then added some logic to the post request and put request? like const newUser = req.body then do if newUser._id === " " then you would just do newUser._id = uuidv4() which would auto generate you a id if the key: value is empty. You could of also added more logic for if the !newUser._id meaning if there isn't a _id in the request then you could throw an error saying add the _id key with an empy value string to have it auto generate.

[@saleemghanem]

@8:12 what is that homepage??

[@yaseenimuhammadraja9461]

Great explanation👍❤️👊. Can you give Source code pls?

[@anaezesomtochukwu3807]

Can I use phpmyadmin MySQLdatabase ?

[@PedroTechnologies]

I think so, I like using mysqlworkbench but it should work with anything!

[@anaezesomtochukwu3807]

Can this work with flutter (darts) apps?

[@PedroTechnologies]

Yes!

[@abhishekrawat8579]

keep doing Node and MySQL because i like this combination rather than mongodb and I think you too love to work with node and mysql❤️❤️❤️

[@PedroTechnologies]

I prefer it too hahaha thats why I used it in this video!

[@abhishekrawat8579]

@@PedroTechnologies glad to know ❤️❤️❤️

[@criley7755]

There are two types of people in the world... people who prefer non-relational databases, and people who've actually built a project for production :)

[@PedroTechnologies]

@@criley7755 Completely agree!

[@PanlasangMotour]

Node Js Express with passport js :)

[@PedroTechnologies]

Planning on making it soon!

[@DanielDuhon]

One comment just to help: the BOOLEAN type is a TINYINT, so it automatically changed it for you. Hope this helps!