Express Js
js that provides a lightweight set of features — routing, middleware, and HTTP utilities — for building web servers and APIs.
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Glossary Terms(13)
Node.js
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine that lets JavaScript run outside the browser, enabling scalable, event-driven server-side applicati…
Express.js
Express.js is a minimal, unopinionated web application framework for Node.js that provides a lightweight set of features — routing, middleware, and HTTP utilit…
REST API
A REST API (Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a web service interface that lets clients and servers communicate over HTTP u…
MongoDB
MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data as flexible, JSON-like documents (BSON) rather than rows and columns in fixed tabl…
Hono
Hono is an ultra-fast, lightweight web framework designed to run across modern JavaScript runtimes and edge computing environments, from Cloudflare Workers to…
JSON Server
JSON Server is a zero-configuration tool that spins up a full REST API from a single JSON file, making it a fast way to mock a backend during frontend prototyp…
Axios
Axios is a promise-based HTTP client for JavaScript that works in both browsers and Node.js, widely used for making API requests with a simpler, more consisten…
Mongoose
Mongoose is an Object Data Modeling (ODM) library for Node.js that provides schema definitions, validation, and a structured query API on top of MongoDB.
NestJS
NestJS is a TypeScript-first framework for building efficient, scalable server-side Node.js applications, providing an opinionated architecture inspired by Ang…
OpenAPI
OpenAPI is a language-agnostic specification for describing REST APIs in a machine-readable format, covering endpoints, request/response schemas, authenticatio…
Postman
Postman is a popular API development and testing platform that lets developers design, document, test, and debug HTTP APIs through a graphical interface and co…
Apollo Server
Apollo Server is an open-source, spec-compliant GraphQL server library for Node.js that lets developers define a schema and resolvers to build production-ready…
Middleware (web)
In web development, middleware is code that runs between an incoming request and the final route handler, commonly used for tasks like authentication, logging,…