Introduction to Backend with Node.js

What Node.js is and how it works

9 min

NPM — the package manager

9 min

Modules in Node — require and import

8 min

Introduction to Express.js

11 min

Basic routes — GET and POST

10 min

Middleware — what it is and how it works

12 min

Route parameters and query strings

9 min

Working with the request body (JSON)

10 min

Introduction to REST APIs

9 min

Designing RESTful endpoints

10 min

Connecting to a database (introduction)

12 min

CRUD — Creating and reading data

13 min

CRUD — Updating and deleting data

11 min

Validating input data

10 min

Error handling in the backend

9 min

Environment variables and configuration

8 min

Basic authentication — what a token is

12 min

CORS — allowing frontend requests

8 min

Basic endpoint testing

9 min

Deploying a backend (Render or Railway)

11 min

Final project — a complete REST API

26 min