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~26 Hours 16 Lessons100% Free

Node.js & Express REST API Engineering

Build scalable, asynchronous backend services, middleware pipelines, and secure REST APIs.

Master Node.js runtime and Express: asynchronous I/O, event loop, file system, streams, HTTP servers, Express routing, middleware, JWT auth, rate limiting, error handling, and Prisma ORM integration.

What You Will Learn

  • Node.js Event Loop & Non-Blocking Asynchronous I/O
  • Express Routing & Middleware Pipeline Architecture
  • RESTful API Design Standards & HTTP Status Codes
  • JWT Authentication & Password Hashing with Bcrypt
  • Database Integration with PostgreSQL & Prisma ORM

Prerequisites & Environment

  • JavaScript Fundamentals

Complete Course Curriculum (16 Modules)

16 In-Depth Lessons
Module 01

Module 1: Node.js Runtime & Libuv Event Loop

1 Lessons

How Node.js executes JavaScript on the server with V8 and libuv.

Module 02

Module 2: Core Modules (fs, path, events, os)

1 Lessons

Interacting with the operating system, file system promises, and EventEmitter.

Module 03

Module 3: Buffers, Streams & Binary Data

1 Lessons

Handling multi-gigabyte files with readable, writable, and transform streams.

Module 04

Module 4: HTTP Server & Networking Fundamentals

1 Lessons

The native http/https module, request headers, status codes, and WebSockets.

Module 05

Module 5: Express Framework & Routing Architecture

1 Lessons

Express application instance, router chaining, and parameterized routes (:id).

Module 06

Module 6: Middleware Pipelines & Global Error Handling

1 Lessons

The (req, res, next) pipeline, third-party middleware, and centralized error handlers.

Module 07

Module 7: REST API Standards & Request Validation

1 Lessons

RESTful HTTP status codes, Zod schema validation, and OpenAPI documentation.

Module 08

Module 8: Authentication with JWT & Bcrypt Hashing

1 Lessons

Password salting with bcrypt, signed JSON Web Tokens, and auth guard middleware.

Module 09

Module 9: Database ORM with PostgreSQL & Prisma

1 Lessons

Relational database modeling with Prisma schema, migrations, and type-safe queries.

Module 10

Module 10: Rate Limiting, CORS & AppSec Hardening

1 Lessons

express-rate-limit, cors configuration, helmet security headers, and sanitization.

Module 11

Module 11: Logging, Clustering & Production PM2/Docker

1 Lessons

Structured logging with Winston, multi-core clustering, PM2 process management, and health checks.

Module 12

Module 12: libuv Internals: Event Demux, Thread Pool & epoll/kqueue

1 Lessons

Master Node.js asynchronous I/O internals: libuv event loop phases, OS I/O multiplexers (epoll/kqueue/IOCP), and thread pool tuning.

Module 13

Module 13: Memory Profiling, Heap Dumps & N-API C++ Addons

1 Lessons

Diagnose V8 heap memory leaks, inspect core dumps with Chrome DevTools, and build native C++ addons with Node-API (N-API).

Module 14

Module 14: Zero-Copy Streams, Buffers & Backpressure Flow Control

1 Lessons

Master Node.js Streams v3, pipeline error propagation, zero-copy buffer pooling, and backpressure management.

Module 15

Module 15: High-Concurrency: Cluster Mode, Worker Threads & Atomics

1 Lessons

Scale Node.js across multi-core CPUs with the Cluster module, Worker Threads, SharedArrayBuffer, and thread messaging.

Module 16

Module 16: OpenTelemetry Tracing & AsyncLocalStorage Context

1 Lessons

Master distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, context propagation across async calls with `AsyncLocalStorage`, and metrics.