Module 1 Introduction
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[00:00 - 00:11] All right, so module one, getting started with REST APIs and Express. So in the last module, we got our development environment set up with Node and MBM.
[00:12 - 00:32] And in this module, we're going to be learning the basics of APIs and REST principles and how they're relevant to the way we're going to interact with the Spotify API later in this course. We're going to introduce the Express framework and we'll also learn the basics of how to handle HTTP requests with Express route handlers.
[00:33 - 01:00] We're going to cover the difference between regular APIs and REST APIs, the basics of REST principles, the anatomy of REST API requests and responses and how they relate to the Spotify API. Then we're going to learn how Express fits in with Node.js, how to create a simple Node server with Express and how to handle HTTP requests and responses with Express.
[01:01 - 01:02] All right, let's get going.