RESTful Web API Design with Node.js - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to protect exposed data by enabling a means of authentication and authorization. This is a critical aspect of any publicly available data service. In addition, you learned how to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks using the secured layer transport protocol between a service and its users. As a developer of such services, you should always consider the most appropriate security features that your application should support.

I hope this was a useful experience! You gained enough knowledge and practical experience, which should have made you much more confident in understanding how RESTful APIs work and how they are designed and developed. I strongly encourage you to go through the code evolution chapter by ...