How to build a REST api with node js & express

In this tutorial we are going to build an api from scratch. This api will be responsible for creating, reading, updating and deleting data.
Here you will learn about good practices of creating an api and make sure your api is up and running.
For this particular project, we are going to use:
-Mongoose: package that makes it easy to work with mongodb and connect to a database
-Express-validator: package responsible for validation of data to the backend.
-Bcryptjs: package responsible for hashing the password and comparing plain-text password to hashed-password

For this tutorial you will need to install the following:
-Postman
-Compass
-I use Vs code as my code editor

[merdibareb]

An explanation accessible to all. Thank you brother

[IamManu_India]

Great Explanation with simple example..!!