Creating REST API for the Course Management Application
Learn how to create a REST API for the course management application.
We'll cover the following
- Setting up the token verification
- Creating the REST APIs for the course management application
- API to get all the created courses
- API to get a specific course
- API to add a new course
- API to update a specific course
- API to delete a specific course
- Configuring the REST API for the Course Management Application
To create the REST API for the course management app, we need to start by creating the verification token, which will help us authorize a user every time they request the client-side. The token will get sent to the server as an authorization header, and the server will then process the token and verify if it’s a valid one. If the token sent to the server is verified as correct, the API will grant the request. If not, an error will get returned.
Setting up the token verification
To set up the token verification middleware, we need to create a new file called verifyToken.js
in the middleware folder of our node.js application. We then proceed to type the code below inside our file:
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