Express API Jukebox Back-End Lab

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Welcome to Reactville, a constantly evolving virtual metropolis. Let’s build this digital town together, one component at a time.

Reactville’s community center is launching a public jukebox, and they need your expertise to build the backend API that powers it! This jukebox will allow residents to freely add, update, and delete music tracks from a shared community playlist.

In this module, students will practice the fundamentals of building and managing an Express API. They will implement full CRUD operations, allowing users to freely interact with a music database. The main focus of this module is on setting up robust routes to handle different types of resource requests, using async/await for asynchronous processes, and managing errors effectively with try/catch blocks.

By the end of this module, students will have constructed a fully functional REST API for a community-driven jukebox, ready to be connected to a front-end application.

Content

• Setup
• Exercise

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Prerequisites

• RESTful Routing
• Intro to Express
• Postman Setup Lab
• MongoDB Atlas Setup Lab

Time to complete

Estimated time to complete core lab exercise: 4 hours

Solution code

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Course landing pages

• SEB - Software Engineering Bootcamp
• Fallback

Resources

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