RESTful APIs in 100 Seconds // Build an API from Scratch with Node.js Express

What is an API? What is REST? Learn how an Application Programming Interface (API) can adhere to Representational State Transfer (REST) to enable reliable communication between apps fireship.io/tags/node/
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[@MrNsaysHi]

Front-end Dev: fix your responses! Backend Dev: fix your requests!

[@nicosup]

meanwhile fullstack devs, jaja mere mortals

[@skyracer-mk8hg]

until you notice that a rest api requires json as input and outputs xml

[@priyanshusharma6763]

And that's how hatred cycle continued 🤣

[@rifaldhiaw]

User: Fix your app!

[@ragulu9267]

@@rifaldhiaw Tester : "We found a bug"

[@0mdshuvo0]

Manager: Why isn't your APIs responding? Me: Its RESTing

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for how long ?

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[@Konslufius]

Because they tend to drift away and mention a bunch of terms that are relevant but don't elaborate further and you just have to understand/know them.

[@monssidus1291]

not even one redundant word in any sentence. much appreciated for well thought out and articulated education.

[@monssidus1291]

@@Konslufius people aren't RESTfull, the way data goes between humans is not fun.

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that’s what i was going to say😮😮.

[@97rob97]

Interviewer: What is a REST API? Candidate: API that follows the rules of RESTful Interviewer: You hired!

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Enough?

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[@Nintron]

“All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can’t get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.” - IBM Manual, 1925

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TIL IBM was founded in _1911_ ?!? Wtf?

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[@PabloBianchiOK]

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[@philipbecker3332]

I love this. Straight to the point and extremely clear - I was searching for days for something like this! Thank you!

[@bnardus]

I literally spent the last 2 days trying to decide what approach I should take for an API, and here you are. It's as if the needs of devs just calls to you

[@Alex-xl4xe]

Holy crap, every single new video of you astonishes how it is possible for a single human being to keep up to date with all these technologies and even explaining them so well, putting them into 100 seconds of proper video and even offering longer tutorials as a pro-Member. Insane!

[@donmikkodanm.olmillo8154]

I have started on learning JS, Node and Express. Thank you for this awesome video about RESTful APIs. This really helps me getting things much clearer!

[@skuffies]

I always love your 100 seconds videos and your tutorials but this one really makes it up there amongst the best, really great explaining and it helped me complete my first project.

[@vasco___]

all of those jokes are tiring me, i need to REST :D

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[@TheLPfunnTV]

This left me feeling kinda RESTless

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God why

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i find your videos a nice way to refresh myself (without watching an hour-long video) when i haven't touched a certain topic in a while, thanks Fireship!

[@_timestamp]

10:59 YES, I (we?) want a full tutorial :)

[@ukaszszarpak1938]

We do indeed!

[@Joshua-yc9ei]

When I first learned about REST apis it took me weeks if not months to understand this concept, your videos are amazing, keep it up!

[@nate1988]

I've been working on an API/Express project and I had no idea tools like Insomnia exist. Game changer -- thank you *so* much for another great video.

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The knowledge you pass on isn't comparable in value with a T-Shirt.

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If the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem somehow seems like a nail.

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[@calderov]

This channel is gold! I learned more in 10 minutes from you than in a couple of hours reading sparse documentation. Thak you!

[@anoodle8319]

I've been using REST APIs forever without knowing the underlying logic! Thank you so much for this video!

[@zachariahtatman7381]

Idk why but this video is so good at explaining the essentials while also going into detail when needed. This is like the only video i watch to help refresh my memory of APIs. Its like my 5th time watching lmao

[@keitumetsemolefe3515]

This is by far the most clear and straightforward tutorial I've ever come across. Thank you so much 🔥🔥

[@user-rf4oj6rm5n]

Thank you so much, there are so many guys want to explain a concept in “simple” term but actually mess easy things up

[@Exen88]

I swear my college class on programming was a waste. I couldn’t learn and the teacher doing the teaching made it difficult to like. Now on my own term, videos like this I can digest the information really well. Who is doing the teaching matters. Thank you youtube and the proliferation of information from the internet.

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It's crazy how he always post a video about a topic that I just have been researching or learning at school 🤯

[@anuragmahajan5919]

Love your video dude! It was taught to us for hours and I didn't understand anything but here in just - 100 seconds

[@petrustefanescu5842]

We learned WebSockets/Message Queues and RESTful APIs in Java. It had a LOT of boilerplate code, it was frustrating. Good thing I discovered afterwards Express, but I've also learned something from your video. Keep up the good work!

[@noonereally0007]

I LOVE YOUR 100SEC videos. they're the best to get a general idea over new terms or languages... as i was about to search for rest api, i found this video, and its the best for me to know what to go on and do now

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Bro, this channel is so underrated. Like I know so much more of js from you. Love the animations too. Keep up the great work!

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[@tobiasrasmussen4347]

Fantastic tutorial. Your instructions are very easy to follow, the pacing is perfect for getting to the points fast without feeling rushed, and this provides the perfect foundation for further exploration.

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Nice! took me a few days to get through this 100 second video but I actually earned my congratulations this time! Thank you for the content! I look forward to more like this! some more exclamation marks for good measure: !!!!!!!

[@markpeterson1779]

This video was perfectly timed! I just started working on Express in my bootcamp. Thanks for the helpful video!

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This was perfect, timewise and feature wise for me to test something out. I didn't want to spend hours working through a tutorial! I am new to this channel, but I subscribed and liked this video. I'll have to check out your other videos too. I have a feeling I am going like them too!

[@ericzorn3735]

Great content as always, I would love to see the AWS infrastructure provisioning via swagger/open API documentation. Never knew that was possible, but that’s really cool

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The level of how you providing content is awesome. This is really inspiring.

[@PixelZYX]

I never watched any of your coding tutorials, wow you literally explain everything thank you!

[@mattroark216]

This was an amazing video just lime the rest of them. I love your channel and all you do. Becuase of your videos I was able to keep working where other wouldn't!! Thank you !

[@BradenJohnYoung]

Honestly, this is the best explanation of restful apis I've ever seen.

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Whenever there is a new Fireship video, I feel like Neo when he's about to learn Jiu-Jitsu

[@bartoszjarczynski438]

First 3 seconds of video convinced me to like this video because there's no 'hi guys today I'm going to explain you what the API is how does it work and than we gonna build one ourselves so let's jump into it, roll the intro' and than after 20s dubstep intro he would start talking nonsense in different language. So I respect you for respecting our time and going straight to the point.

[@VinilDumpala]

An crystal clear explanation of writing an API with Node.js and Express!

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The quality of your videos is just excellent. Keep up the great work 🙏

[@raghav.bhardwaj]

Not only I learned About REST API, I also Learned Basics of Express JS. I always wanted to Learn Node + Express, Now you have motivated me to start Learning it ASAP. Thank You.

[@trancecoremedia]

Man, I can't thank you enough for this excellent tutorial! Best in class, keep 'em coming!

[@onkar10046]

what an explanation dude. I am new at node js but no one explained how to create a simple get post api as simple as this. Thank you

[@sharzy7209]

I'm currently working on my capstone for university and this video was so helpful in explaining how to create an API with Node.js and Express

[@voxlz]

Knew about REST but would love to hear more about the API configuration part at the end!

[@AugerHybrid]

I thought that it would take hours to get Insomnia working with this Node.js project but they have got things right and for once everything in this tutorial worked fine! Thanks!

[@pravdasircone1691]

Really appreciate you going into details what each part of the code is doing. Like the call back in the get and the Middleware function etc. Tyvm

[@key_michael]

In continuity to this tutorial I would suggest that a set of videos showing how to deal with persistent data would be ideal. Most people can learn how to create the API URIs, but the real deal is when it is for a developer to manage to records to a Database. That's MySQL for example and not Firebase which happens to be more simplified. Also, an example from various programming languages should help a ton of people to move things forward.

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well everyone here was already clear and aware as to what a restful api is, but still watched it like me to appreciate your hard work and in turn refresh our knowledge

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Love your content. Saw every video and there is no person like you on the whole youtube. Every material Is well structured and explained better in few minutes than some tutorials 1h long.

[@GaborGubicza]

This was a really cool video. I heard about REST API, I read swagger doc, used Postman, heard about curl, JSON, but this video nicely tied everything together It's both terrifying and exciting at the same time to transition from HW to SW ENG. This is week 2. Thanks, keep up the good work.

[@0ne4rif]

I'm a front-end dev (Angular), I find your video simple and straightforward. Thank you!

[@a.human.]

As an absolute beginner trying to wrap my head around all these new concepts covering backend tech, I must say this video made the most sense out of all the other vids on yt on RESTful apis. So, thank you!!! Btw, anyone passing by this comment... any advice for someone like me who's trying to become a MERN stack dev?

[@_PranavDesai]

As someone new to all of this, man, this was a blessing!

[@Shulkerkiste]

Haha, I wrote my exam about REST-APIs a few hours ago :D

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wow colleges teach about all those !?!?

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A full tutorial on APIs please! Love the content.❤️

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Absolutely brilliant! Thank you sooo much for this lesson! :)

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[@MotiviqueStudio]

This was the exact visualization I needed. Thank you.

[@tomasburian6550]

This is literally what I wanted to know. 10/10, would watch again.

[@DodaGarcia]

Damn I just wrote one of those this week!! Hadn’t used Express before and was very pleased with how straightforward it is.

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Thank you so much for the incomparable l'évolution of simplicity ❤

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i love you're videos. they are always so compact and spot an.

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Great 10min of Knowledge. Fast and Efficient

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i wish i watched this video earlier i was lost for many weeks understanding. Now i understand. Thank you

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I took this information about restful API in my presentation and response I got was awesome thank you so much for providing that much information in just 100 seconds thank you so much ❤️❤️

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thnks a lot, man your explanations are great, i've understood everything you said with absolutely 0 knowledge in JS, keep up you're doing greate !!!!

[@DavidDeCorso]

The one thing I wanted to learn today and there's a video about it in my notifications already lol

[@gloweye]

Creating and maintaining these is my job. Specifically applied for a non-frontend job. We use Swagger for automated frontend-end stuff.

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Thank you! I appreciate your vids man. Keep up the great work!!

[@Amir_ZMI]

I have a suggestion... recently I was in a big project and I was confused as hell. We had many arguments and fights about what folder structure to use for our API: - Where to put validation? - Use validation in express.js way (in the routes like a middleware) or separately? - Where to put routes? - break routes into different files or one single file? If so, break based on what? There are just countless questions to be answered in this regard. The problem also is that nobody makes videos about folder structure for enterprise level applications. It would be great if you could make it a thing.

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Man, i love the way you teach and the teapot as well!

[@maroben225]

Thank god we actually need practical examples like these....it actually give me a desire to go and use nodejs ..i always use flask and django..never hit me to use nodejs

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This has been a long awaited video for me... Thanks for making the video ❤️

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Finally, we got this video we can REST well after watching it.

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no one else does it better than you, thank you!

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Well Explained! Awesome work, expect similar quality content in future!

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I really appreciate these videos. Thanks man!

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I should've watch this before I take my assessment in Spring. Now I fully understand what an API does

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I've just experienced a speed of light fast transmission of light into my ignorant brain through this video. Thanks dude...I will be back for more.

[@unitydeveloperkgk9836]

This was great. Visuals always make it so much easier to understand.

[@elektr1x7881]

i always wondered exactly what a RESTful API was, thanks! :)

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Your tutorials are really nice, thanks for taking time for making these series and videos

[@ZoltanVaradi-zero]

You what I haven't seen until now in these types of videos (from others). The distinction between URI and URL. I

[@romievthedon]

It took a while to get to the point of understanding the use case for API's, but after watching you build a simple one, it's much less confusing

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Do you believe in signs? Well, I'm starting to. I'm to start a project next week, an eCommerce site and I was planning to use Node as the backend and React on the frontend. I had no idea on how to create the backend, this video just came at the right moment. Thank you.

[@poglord._]

Hey, predicted it yesterday. Was just researching about it and then I got this notification. Amazing job man 👍. Now I can REST my APIs (see what I did there? )

[@smccartney09]

Congratulations, you've learned enough to get a job at any mid-to-large size company developing APIs.

[@chetan3283]

Crisp and to the point! A good one to get started

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I loved the simplicity of the video. Good job!!!

[@waterbitten]

Awesome video! Thanks for explaining so clearly.

[@nielskersic328]

I would really love to see the full API Gateway configuration!

[@rahimeyldz2272]

Great and precies explanation!! Thank you ☺️

[@rafaellenti1744]

Awesome explanation! Thank you so much!