Building a scalable API with NodeJS (tutorial for beginners)

In this beginner friendly tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a scalable and production-ready REST API for an ecommerce application using NodeJS, TypeScript, and Express. We’ll guide you step-by-step through essential backend tools like Drizzle for database interactions and Postgres for data storage, all while integrating Genezio to simplify deployment. Let's get started 🚀

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📚 This video includes a lot of tools and technologies, providing an excellent opportunity to learn about:
- TypeScript for safer, more maintainable code
- NodeJS for efficient, scalable backend development
- Express for handling API routes and middleware
- Drizzle for working with databases
- Postgres as a robust database solution
- Genezio for serverless deployment and scaling

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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro and Project Overview
3:15 Genezio - the Fastest Full-Stack Cloud
5:31 Mega Project Structure: 4 Parts
6:51 Prerequisites for the Project
10:04 Setting up the Project
13:50 Installing Express
23:20 Setting up Git
34:20 Creating Product Routes and Controllers
1:08:26 Setting up the PostgreSQL Database
1:10:45 Installing and Setting up Drizzle ORM
1:37:55 Implementing CRUD operations for Products
2:12:04 Validation with Zod + Drizzle Schema
2:59:15 Setting up Authentication and Authorisation
3:49:25 Building the Proejct and Fixing "ts build"
3:56:38 Deploying the API to Genezio
4:06:52 Implementing the Orders and Order items CRUD
4:39:59 Listing the Orders
4:56:34 Outro

Disclaimer: This build is for educational purposes only. All views, opinions, and technology choices expressed in this video are my own and do not represent the views, opinions, or technology choices of any entity I have been, am now, or will be affiliated with.
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[JS-gxvv]

Thank you for doing this. I was in your first React Native course, batch 1. I've been waiting for this one!

[enehizyosas]

thank you so much, i have downloaded various courses and your video helped me finally put everything together..

[Asafo-AdjeiJensenKwekuSedem]

I'm back! It's the guy who used your twitter video for his uni project. Thanks for making such wonderful and educative content.

[simbaclaws_youtube]

Thank you for this tutorial, I'm building something a little bit bigger, but with the same intentions. I'll try to contribute back when I have my own ecommerce setup finished.

[tanjimitsolution]

Excellent! Please make more node js projects

[creta]

Need more backend only focused projects would appreciate a

[hosseinlotfi]

This is the exact thing that I was looking for

[gabrielpaez]

Excellent!!, thanks a lot for sharing ...

[chinmayanand]

Just curious why you called this scalable when you did not provide any testing? load testing? no load balancer? no shadow testing? Your content might be good but title is not correct in this case.
Anyways Thank you

[treksis]

thank you. helped to get intuition on jwt and middleware. can you use this with expo api routes? it will be the most hyped yolo tech stack

[neza_salton]

Thank you for this interesting video😋, by then let me try to build UI with flutter🤩

[omarhassane]

Can you make a react native and MySQL tutorial

[dogsales-io]

Hey mate nice work!
Instead of lodash, why aren't we using on less library to work with!

[asrafullhaqporag]

Please make a full stack project with react or Next.js with Nest.js API.Or make only nest.js API building project For beginners to advance with typescript.

[gabuchi]

im just sitting in front of my pc at home learning

[mdsafikulislam]

Dear Brother, This is my humble request to you that please make React Native Application using this API 🙏🙏🙏

[darshmostafa]

I wanna Know, what's best ORM in Big Projects with Express.js and Postgresql ???

[ahrorkurban]

hello and thank you soo much for awesome video, it is really great! i am frontend developer and learing backedn at the moment and your video is really helps me.

can anybody help me? i am facing the problem of my router in index.js..., in my localport everything working fine but after deploying to genezio whenever i try to requst with genezio url i am getting only "hello world" even if the url is "/products" i am getting the same result. Ive chacked the log from genezio dashbord and url is always "/" and event.path from serverless-http is undefined. it seems that genezio in serverless side can not find "/products" and make it default url "/" or i do not know. the serverless-http version is 3. index.js and yaml file are almost exactly as on tutorial, except added "type:httpServer" as in documentation from genezio express framework. will appreciate if someone helps me.

[mihai.pistol]

If I use the .js fix it breaks the drizzle generate, anyoane here that found a workaround?