Back End - Web Development

Theory

Basic
- Server-side
Authentication & Authorization
- JSON Web Token
- Cookies & Sessions
- OAuth (Login via Google, Twitter, GitHub)
- Authentication Libraries (Passport, Grant)
- Password Hashing => Bcrypt
- Protecting endpoints and routes
Database
- Type => Relational (SQL), NoSQL
- File Format => JSON, BSON
- Technology
  - PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Supabase
  - Redis
- Tools => PG Admin, MySQL Workbench, MongoDB Compass
- ORMs => Sequelize, Mongoose, Prisma, SQLAlchemy, Doctrine
- CURD => Create, Read, Update, Delete
Headless CMS => Content Management System for creating API with no front-end
- Strapi
- Sanity.io
- Wordpress
- ContentFUl, GraphCMS
API
- REST API => APIs that conform to the REST architectural style and interacts with RESTful services
  - Representational State Transfer
  - HTTP request work wih data/resources
  - Specific URL structure for endpoints
GraphQL => Data query and manipulation language for API
- Request specific data points
- Strongly typed
- Less maintenance than REST
- GraphQL Client => Apollo
Others
- Firebase
  - NoSQL, File Storage, Authentication, Serverless Function
- Tools
  - Postman, VS CODE Thunder Client