Week 3: Building Standard Web APIs
Explore the fundamentals of client-server architecture by building a RESTful API with Express.js. Learn to structure APIs following standard practices, break down HTTP requests, and use JavaScript to interact with the server from the browser.
In this lecture, we will learn:
Why...
- Do we need to separate the frontend and backend?
- Do we structure APIs in a certain standard way?
How to...
- Create a basic RESTful API with Express.js
- Use Javascript to make HTTP requests on the browser to the server