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Play by Play: Building a Node Web API with Sam Artioli and John Papa

Learn expert tips for working with NodeJS.

Beginner
2h 1m
(228)

Created by John Papa and Sam Artioli

Last Updated Feb 16, 2024

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Play by Play: Building a Node Web API with Sam Artioli and John Papa

Learn expert tips for working with NodeJS.

Beginner
2h 1m
(228)

Created by John Papa and Sam Artioli

Last Updated Feb 16, 2024

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What you'll learn

Play by Play is a series where we sit down with an expert to work on a solution in real time. It's unscripted and unrehearsed. In this course, NodeJS expert Sam Artioli builds a web app from scratch. You'll learn how to set up a Node app, build a web API with Express, integrate with MongoDB, and cache HTTP results with Redis. You'll also learn some expert techniques, such as offloading and proxying requests to multiple Node servers, organizing API routes, and avoiding blocking process and taking advantage of Node's event loop. Exercise files for the course are located at https://github.com/samartioli/node-web-api.

Play by Play: Building a Node Web API with Sam Artioli and John Papa
Beginner
2h 1m
(228)
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John Papa
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John Papa is a Principal Developer Advocate with Microsoft and an alumni of the Google Developer Expert, Microsoft Regional Director, and MVP programs.

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Sam Artioli
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Sam Artioli is a Solutions Architect with 15+ years experience in Software Development.

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