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Project Objectives

This project aims to implement a books management REST API server in Node.js, named lr_rest_books_node1.

The following features should be available:

  • It CRUD2s books in RESTful style.
  • It stores data in MySQL and monogoDB.

MySQL

mongoDB

  • It caches data with redis.

redis

  • It supports pagination and search.
  • It does authentiction with JWT. jwt
  • It can be deployed in multiple ways, such as standalone, nginx-proxy, docker and kubernetes.

Footnotes

  1. lr_ is the prefix from LiteRank.

  2. CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. These are the four basic operations that can be performed on data within a system.