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apply best API design practices for communicating success and failures • protect API routes using JWT-formatted access tokens and authorization middleware • validate data sent to an API
Josh Cunningham
1 week · 6-8 hours per week · BEGINNER
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Improve developer engagement in PrincipalStack, an online publication of software development content. As its sole software engineer, your task is to create an API to expose the posting functionality of the Node.js web application. You’ll build a simple CRUD (create, read, update, delete) API and protect it with JWT-formatted access tokens issued by the authorization server, while maintaining the association between the content managed by the API and the original user who created it. When you’re done, you’ll have provided an interface for all external contributors, enhancing their user experience.

This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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Josh Cunningham

Josh Cunningham is a staff product engineer at Okta (formerly Auth0) leading a team of engineers to help partners build identity solutions. Previously, he led the onboarding program for new engineers and built open-source SDKs to help customers connect their applications to Auth0 using OpenID Connect, OAuth2, and SAML. Josh has been teaching and writing about technology for over two decades in various leadership, design, and engineering roles.

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  • Basic HTML, specifically forms
  • Basic npm to create a new JS project and manage packages

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