Building an API with Express

Express is a well-known and supported framework for Node web applications. It provides a lot of excellent functionality to process requests, interact with other APIs, handle authentication and return appropriate requests for any client.
This course will look at providing an API for a specific application but will explore concepts that will be helpful in building a wide variety of applications.

• Set up Express to Automatically Reload on Save with nodemon
• Return JSON from Express and Handle CORS Errors
• Serve a random static file with Express
• Parse and Process JSON with Express
• Create Custom Middleware for Authentication in Express
• Create custom middleware for authentication in Express
• Handle Syncronous and Asyncronous Errors in Express
• Configure an Auth0 API Authentication to Use with Your Server
• Add Middleware to Validate a JSON Web Token (JWT)
• Get a JWT From Auth0 in Express to Be Used in Authentication
• Create an upload route in an Express API