🚀 Web API Development with Node.js & AI

Repository for learning Web API Development with Node.js and AI. Focus on building backend APIs, Express, events, auth, sessions, MVC, and more.

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📋 Course overview

Group	G2
Trainer	Ivo Kostovski
Email	ivo@kostovski.dev
Web	kostovski.dev
GitHub	ivokostovski

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📚 Topics

• Node.js — runtime, modules, event loop
• Built-in modules — path, fs (filesystem), etc.
• Backend API development — REST, HTTP, JSON
• Express — routing, middleware, error handling
• MongoDB & Mongoose — database, ODM, schemas
• Events — EventEmitter, streams, async patterns
• Authentication & authorization — strategies, roles, JWT
• Sessions & cookies — state, security, storage
• MVC pattern — structure, separation of concerns
• Modules — CommonJS, ESM, npm, project layout

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🛠 Tools

Tool	Link
VS Code	code.visualstudio.com
GitHub Copilot	github.com/features/copilot
ChatGPT	chat.openai.com

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📂 Homeworks

All homework instructions live in the homeworks/ folder. Each assignment has its own README there.

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🧪 Postman — API Testing Tool

See POSTMAN.md for installation, basic concepts, quick start, and the shared class collection.

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🐛 Debugging Node.js APIs

For practical debugging guidance (logging-first approach, plus breakpoints/inspector examples) see:

• DEBUGGING_NODEJS_APPS.md

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🍃 MongoDB Atlas Quick Setup (Testing App)

See the dedicated setup guide:

• MONGODB_ATLAS_SETUP.md