Production-Ready REST API
Authentication, validation, migrations, tests and docs, the backend patterns every real API needs.
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What's included
- Full API project
- Migrations and seed data
- Integration test suite
Setup instructions
- Install Node.js 20+ and PostgreSQL 16.
- Copy .env.example to .env and set DATABASE_URL.
- Run npm install, npm run migrate and npm run dev.
About this project
A reference REST API built the way you'd build one for a client: layered architecture, input validation, JWT authentication with refresh tokens, database migrations, integration tests and generated documentation.
There is no flashy UI here on purpose. This is the backend foundation the other projects in the series sit on.
Features
- Layered structure: routes, services, repositories
- JWT access and refresh tokens
- Schema validation on every request
- Database migrations
- Integration tests
- Generated OpenAPI docs
What you will learn
- Structuring an API so it stays maintainable
- Secure authentication and token rotation
- Testing against a real database
- Error handling and logging conventions
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About this video
- Episode
- E04
- Category
- APIs
- Published
- May 29, 2026
- Video length
- 9 min
- Access
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- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- TypeScript
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