Building a Simple API with AdonisJS [NodeJS]

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If you've never heard of AdonisJS before, you're in for a treat. Fans of Laravel will especially love this framework.

TL;DR

I've completed my first tutorial series on creating a simple API using AdonisJS -- an MVC framework for Node.

In the series I cover the following:

• using the Adonis CLI to quickly create a project and important files
• routing
• database migrations
• CRUD operations on a MySQL db via Lucid ORM and the Query Builder
• Middleware

Throughout the course I walk you through the documentation and even some source code so you will be armed with the understanding to excel on your own.

I also provide a cheatsheet on Github with many suggestions on how you can challenge yourself to learn even more.

• View the series here.
• Find the cheatsheet here.

When I first began planning a personal project last year, I knew I wanted to use Node, but I was not looking forward to working with so many different libs to get what I needed -- Express, Knex, Nodemailer, Passport, etc.

It's not that I thought it would be especially difficult putting all those together; I know many others work with just that stack.

What I really wanted, though, was all those things in a nice neat bundle to make things less tedious.

I'm very happy I found AdonisJS.

Please have a look at the course and let me know what you think. Any and all constructive feedback is appreciated. I found the whole process very challenging, and I look forward to getting better at creating tutorials like this.

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