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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.

John Papa - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Building a Node Web API with Sam Artioli and John Papa
John Papa
Sam Artioli - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Building a Node Web API with Sam Artioli and John Papa
Sam Artioli
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.

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About the authors
John Papa - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Building a Node Web API with Sam Artioli and John Papa
John Papa

John Papa is a Principal Developer Advocate with Microsoft and an alumni of the Google Developer Expert, Microsoft Regional Director, and MVP programs.

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

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

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