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105Building a server with node:http
106Request and response objects
107Routing by hand
108Reading request bodies
109Sending JSON responses
110Status codes and headers
111HTTP/2 and HTTPS servers
112Why frameworks exist
113Express: your first app
114Middleware: the request pipeline
115Routers and route parameters
116Serving static files
117Error-handling middleware
118Fastify for performance
119Validation of request data
120REST conventions that matter
121Designing resource URLs
122Pagination, filtering, sorting
123Versioning an API
124CORS: cross-origin requests
125Rate limiting your API
126API documentation with OpenAPI

105Building a server with node:http
106Request and response objects
107Routing by hand
108Reading request bodies
109Sending JSON responses
110Status codes and headers
111HTTP/2 and HTTPS servers
112Why frameworks exist
113Express: your first app
114Middleware: the request pipeline
115Routers and route parameters
116Serving static files
117Error-handling middleware
118Fastify for performance
119Validation of request data
120REST conventions that matter
121Designing resource URLs
122Pagination, filtering, sorting
123Versioning an API
124CORS: cross-origin requests
125Rate limiting your API
126API documentation with OpenAPI

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