Create a RESTful API using NodeJS and MySQL Database

These days, there are no projects that do not have a REST API for creating professional web services. REST ( Representational State Transfer) consists set of guidelines to build a web service, which can be used to modify or view specific information on the web without performing any server side operations. Using RESTful APIs saves huge amount of time. Twitter, Facebook, Google and thousands of companies use REST APIs. This is because REST is the most efficient and widespread standard in the creation of APIs for Internet services.

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React Webpack Heroku Youtube Instant Search Working with APIs Tutorial

I already have discussed about React JS in my previous posts. Today, lets see advanced way of using React JS, webpack and ES6 with Node.js to build and run your application. Let’s see what webpack and ES6 does. ES6 (ECMAScript6) is the latest version of javascript that has number of new features to write your javascript code easily. Webpack is mainly designed for larger applications to build the application. The main idea behind webpack/ES6 is code splitting. It allows you to write Javascript as a modularized code, so that you can re-use and share the code to maintain your project over-time.

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Rethink Database for Creating a Realtime Web Application with Node JS

Earlier in realtime, any request for data from the server makes the app slow, unscalable and cumbersome to maintain. RethinkDB mainly focus on this drawback and makes building realtime apps easier. RethinkDB is the first open-source, scalable JSON database built for realtime web. The developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push updated query results to application in realtime; this reduces the server load and also the time and effort necessary to build scalable realtime apps. Here there is complete steps for installing RethinkDB. This post also explains you to create a reat-time web application using RethinkDB and Node.js

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