AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Build & Deploy a Node.js RESTful API

Overview

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In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create a Node.js RESTful API & launch it on your own server using AWS Elastic Beanstalk technology. You will be using the Express.js, or simply Express, a back end web application framework for Node.js framework to create your RESTful API & AWS desktop management console to deploy the RESTful API to the AWS servers. Additionally, you will learn more about reading the server logs, how to switch between different versions of your API applications & also, monitoring your AWS servers using Elastic Beanstalk Management Console. Note: To avoid distraction for set up during the course, we would recommend that you create an Amazon AWS account beforehand. Amazon AWS provides a free tier option for 1 year & the course materials will utilize services that fall under the free tier option.

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By the end of this project, you will learn how to create a Node.js RESTful API & launch it on your own server using AWS Elastic Beanstalk technology. You will be using the Express.js, or simply Express, a back end web application framework for Node.js framework to create your RESTful API & AWS desktop management console to deploy the RESTful API to the AWS servers. Additionally, you will learn more about reading the server logs, how to switch between different versions of your API applications & also, monitoring your AWS servers using Elastic Beanstalk Management Console. Note: To avoid distraction for set up during the course, we would recommend that you create an Amazon AWS account beforehand. Amazon AWS provides a free tier option for 1 year & the course materials will utilize services that fall under the free tier option.