How To Build and Test a Node.js REST API with Express on Ubuntu 18.04
In this guide, you will build a Node.js REST API with the Express Framework, expose it to the internet with Ngrok and make test requests to it on Postman. 1. Introduction […]
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Documenting a Node.js REST API using Swagger
Swagger is a software tool used for designing, building, documenting, and using RESTful APIs. It follows the OpenAPI specification. An API (Application Programming Interface) is […]
A Vanilla Node.js REST API without Frameworks such us Express
Node.js is a very popular JavaScript framework. It shines most when used to build back-end services and APIs. Node.js developers often utilize open-source frameworks and libraries like Express.js to […]
How to Create a Simple REST API using TypeScript and Node.js
Typescript is a superset of JavaScript with additional features such as static types checking. Typescript is gaining a lot of popularity among JavaScript developers. It […]
Spring REST API + OAuth2 + Angular (using the Spring Security OAuth legacy stack)
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll secure a REST API with OAuth and consume it from a simple Angular client. The application we’re going to […]
OAuth2 for a Spring REST API – Handle the Refresh Token in Angular
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll continue exploring the OAuth2 Authorization Code flow that we started putting together in our previous article and we’ll focus on how to […]
Test a REST API with Java
1. Overview This tutorial focuses on the basic principles and mechanics of testing a REST API with live Integration Tests (with a JSON payload). The main goal […]
Setting a Request Timeout for a Spring REST API
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll explore a few possible ways to implement request timeouts for a Spring REST API. We’ll discuss the benefits and drawbacks […]
Spring REST API + OAuth2 + Angular
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll secure a REST API with OAuth2 and consume it from a simple Angular client. The application we’re going to build […]
A Custom Media Type for a Spring REST API
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at defining custom media types and producing them by Spring REST controller. A good […]
Spring REST API with Protocol Buffers
1. Overview Protocol Buffers is a language and platform neutral mechanism for serialization and deserialization of structured data, which is proclaimed by Google, its creator, to […]
Versioning a REST API
1. The Problem Evolving a REST API is a difficult problem – one for which many options are available. This article discusses some of these options. […]
Setting Up Swagger 2 with a Spring REST API
1. Overview Nowadays, front-end and back-end components often separate a web application. Usually, we expose APIs as a back-end component for the front-end component or […]
Build a REST API with Spring and Java Config
1. Overview This article shows how to set up REST in Spring – the Controller and HTTP response codes, configuration of payload marshalling and content negotiation. 2. […]
