Introduction

When building APIs, a RESTful API is one of the most common types of API to build. As with any technology, REST APIs can be built to serve straightforward use cases or be augmented to accommodate your most complex tasks. Regardless of what you are building, you’ve come here to figure out how to build a RESTful API, and that is precisely what we will do for this blog! By the end of this blog, you will be able to build a simple RESTful API with NodeJS that you can then expand on to fit your exact needs. Let’s get started by looking a bit further at precisely what a REST API is.