Modern and applicative JavaScript - Part 1

Building REST API with express.js

July 12, 2019 | Aptitude Software's office

• 📊 Slides: https://slides.com/kajetansw/building-rest-api-expressjs
• ⌚ Duration: ~90 minutes
• 👨‍💻 Form: workshops

After a really broad introduction to JavaScript as a language with a lot of theory and facts I decided that it was a time to jump into practice!

The goal was to build foundations for a modern web application using various JavaScript technologies. The theme was to create a "Splitter" application. It is a clone of Splitwiseⓒ - application for splitting expenses with other users.

During these workshops all participants had an opportunity to learn modern ES2015+ standards of JavaScript by building REST API with NodeJS and express.js.

Outline

• What is so "modern" and "applicative" about JavaScript
• What will be our technology stack?
• What are the coolest ES2015+ features and why they are cool?
• Array.prototype functions
• Introducting our project
• What is express.js
• 👨‍💻 CODING TIME 👨‍💻
• What's next?