Chapter 2
Developing RESTful APIs to Perform CRUD Operations

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the design concept of a RESTful API
• Create a MongoDB Atlas cluster with Node
• Connect a Node application to the database with the MongoDB native driver and Mongoose
• Create a database schema and a data model with Mongoose
• Implement Express with Node
• Develop a RESTful API

This chapter presents the fundamentals and practical elements that will enable you to develop and test a RESTful API.