APIs are a very common thing nowadays. They are used literally everywhere on the website. APIs serve as the connection between the database which stores all the data and the frontend with which the user interacts with to get access to the data.

API mean Application Programming Interface which is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between the frontend and the database.

REST which stands for Representational State Transfer is an architectural style for providing standards between computer systems on the web, making it easier for systems to communicate with each other.

REST APIs mostly use JSON as the preferred choice for transferring data as they are easy to understand and is readable.

In this tutorial, we will be using Node, Express and MongoDB to create a REST API which would support the four operations — GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

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