Final Project: Building and Deploying a Complete API

Build and deploy a complete RESTful API for a product catalog and order

management system with the following features:

• •User authentication and authorization
• •Product management (CRUD operations)
• •Order processing
• •Basic reporting
• •API documentation
• •Performance optimization
• •Security implementation
• •Deployment to a cloud platform

• •User registration and authentication with JWT
• •Role-based access control (admin, staff, customer)
• •Product management (create, read, update, delete)
• •Category management for products
• •Order creation and processing
• •Order status tracking
• •Basic reporting (sales, inventory, etc.)

• •Express.js for API development
• •MongoDB for database
• •JWT for authentication
• •Input validation
• •Error handling
• •API documentation with Swagger
• •Logging and monitoring
• •Unit and integration tests
• •Performance optimization (caching, pagination, etc.)
• •Deployment to a cloud platform (Heroku, AWS, etc.)

• •Prepare for deployment
• •Configure production environment variables
• •Set up monitoring
• •Add final security measures
• •Deploy to cloud platform:
• •Heroku
• •AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• •Digital Ocean App Platform
• •Review and test:
• •Verify API functionality
• •Test security
• •Check performance
• •Ensure proper error handling
• •Validate documentation

• 1.Working API deployed to a cloud platform
• 2.Complete API documentation
• 3.Source code in a Git repository
• 4.Presentation of the API design and implementation
• 5.Performance and security report

A comprehensive system architecture diagram showing the complete API system,

including frontend clients, API server, database, caching layer, authentication

flow, and cloud deployment infrastructure.

• •[Building a Production-Ready Node.js API](https://blog.logrocket.com/how-to-build-a-restful-api-with-node-js-and-express/)
• •[Best Practices for Express in Production](https://expressjs.com/en/advanced/best-practice-performance.html)
• •[RESTful API Design Guidelines](https://florimond.dev/blog/articles/2018/08/restful-api-design-13-best-practices-to-make-your-users-happy/)
• •[Node.js Production Best Practices](https://github.com/goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices)