Express.js, the minimal Node.js web framework: building REST APIs, middleware and production setup.
Tutorials that show you how to build an API in 50 lines of code are lying to you. This is what a production TypeScript API actually looks like — authentication, validation, error handling, rate limiting, database connection pooling, structured logging, and a test suite. All of it, from scratch.
Node.js took the V8 engine out of Chrome and ran it on a server. That sounds like a small change. What it actually did was flip how developers think about I/O — and spawn an ecosystem of two million packages.
Build a REST API in Node.js and Express the way production systems need: input validation, JWT auth, refresh token rotation, status codes, rate limiting, idempotency keys, and centralized error handling.
