Hands-On RESTful Web Services with TypeScript 3

A step-by-step guide that will help you design develop scale and deploy RESTful APIs with TypeScript 3 and Node.jsKey FeaturesGain in-depth knowledge of OpenAPI and Swagger to build scalable web servicesExplore a variety of test frameworks and test runners such as Stryker Mocha and ChaiCreate a pipeline by Dockerizing your environment using Travis CI Google Cloud Platform and GitHubBook DescriptionIn the world of web development leveraging data is the key to developing comprehensive applications and RESTful APIs help you to achieve this systematically. This book will guide you in designing and developing web services with the power of TypeScript 3 and Node.js. Youll design REST APIs using best practices for request handling validation authentication and authorization. Youll also understand how to enhance the capabilities of your APIs with ODMs databases models and views as well as asynchronous callbacks. This book will guide you in securing your environment by testing your services and initiating test automation with different testing approaches. Furthermore youll get to grips with developing secure testable and more efficient code and be able to scale and deploy TypeScript 3 and Node.js-powered RESTful APIs on cloud platforms such as the Google Cloud Platform. Finally the book will help you explore microservices and give you an overview of what GraphQL can allow you to do.By the end of this book you will be able to use RESTful web services to create your APIs for mobile and web apps and other platforms.What you will learnExplore various methods to plan your services in a scalable wayUnderstand how to handle different request types and the response status codeGet to grips with securing web servicesDelve into error handling and logging your web services for improved debuggingUncover the microservices architecture and GraphQLCreate automated CI/CD pipelines for release and deployment strategiesWho this book is forIf you’re a developer who has a basic understanding of REST concepts and want to learn how to design and develop RESTful APIs this book is for you. Prior knowledge of TypeScript will help you make the most out of this book.