REST API

Overview

Design and build production-grade RESTful APIs following industry conventions. This skill covers resource modeling, HTTP semantics, authentication, validation, pagination, versioning, documentation, error handling, and security — with examples in Express (Node.js) and FastAPI (Python).

Instructions

Step 1: Project Setup

Express:

npm install express cors helmet morgan compression zod jsonwebtoken bcrypt swagger-jsdoc swagger-ui-express

FastAPI:

pip install "fastapi[standard]" uvicorn sqlalchemy pydantic-settings python-jose[cryptography] passlib[bcrypt]