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Great job learning the basics of building a REST API with Express! Here are some things you may want to study next.
Some reading on CORS
Authentication and Authorization
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When you're building your own API,
there are a number of things to consider.
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Here are just a few,
using a database and ORM.
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CORS, user authentication,
and user authorization.
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Now that you've had an introduction
to building REST APIs with xPress,
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a natural next step would be to build
an API using a database and an ORM.
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A database will help you maintain and
persist larger and more complex datasets.
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While an ORM will help you interact
with the database more easily.
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CORS, or cross-origin resource sharing
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is a mechanism that allows one web
domain to communicate with another.
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