How ChatGPT Simplifies Backend API Development For Full Stack MERN App: NodeJS + Express

Learn to Build a Backend for Your Task Manager App with ChatGPT

🚀 What You'll Learn in This Video:

Setting up a development environment for the MERN stack.
Installing and configuring essential backend tools like Express, Mongoose, and dotenv.
Designing a database schema for task management.
Building and testing CRUD API endpoints using Postman and curl.
💡 Why This Step is Important:
The backend forms the backbone of your application, enabling seamless data storage, retrieval, and communication with the frontend. With ChatGPT’s help, you’ll see how to simplify backend development while maintaining clean, modular code.

🛠️ Key Takeaways:

Modular folder structure with separate routes and models.
Efficient testing of API endpoints for real-world readiness.
📺 Related Videos in the Series:

Episode 2: Planning and Designing Your Task Manager App
Next Episode: Building the Frontend with React and Connecting to the Backend
⏱️ Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:19 Goals for this video
01:37 Introducing MongoDB
02:47 Setting up MERN backed
03:03 Prompt for setting up backend as per our folder structure
03:30 Setting up project as per ChatGPT provided steps
03:40 Installing dependencies
06:53 Auto Generating MongoDB schema for our task manager app
08:03 Auto Generating CRUD endpoints code with ChatGPT
08:47 Keeping things separate in their own dedicated files
11:12 Testing express server endpoints using Postman
14:34 Testing express server endpoints using curl
16:09 Recap
16:37 Coming up next

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