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Build a Backend REST API with Node JS from Scratch (Udemy.com)

Build a backend NodeJS API with a React client

4.2
678 reviews

Created by: Pierre-Henry Soria

Last updated May 2026

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What you will learn

  • Ability to build a backend API for any kinds of projects and MVPs
  • Creating API endpoints, testing property an API call and securing them!
  • Capacity to build a client React application and plug it to an API
  • HTTP Client Axios package as well as Fetch Native JS API!
  • Clean Code and Good Coding Practices in NodeJS and RESTful API architecture
  • Software Architecture: Learn the n-tier and layered architecture patterns
  • Calling an API from the client-side and dealing with CORS from the web browsers
  • All the little things you ABSOLUTELY need to know for taking your skills to the next level and becoming an outstanding web developer
  • Implementing several NPM packages such as Pino, Yup, Toastify, React Content Loader, and so on!
  • Securing and optimizing an API on production with Rate Limiter, Helmet and Compression
  • Documenting an API professionally with JSDoc and OpenAPI

How it compares

Against the other 118 rated Udemy courses in Node.js on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 26% of them
  • Reviews678#41 of 119 by number of reviews
  • Length12.2 hourslonger than 67% of them
  • Last updatedMay 2026more recently than 91% of them

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Course Description

Quickly learn the fundamental of building a robust RESTFul API with NodeJS based on an efficient N-tier architecture pattern, and then, see how to plug your API with a client which you will also learn how to build. A client built with the latest React and Bootstrap versions.


You will learn how to build a backend API from scratch and build a client that will speak to your API through HTTP protocol.

  • Communicate with your backend. HTTP and HTTP methods and codes.

  • How to validate the input data validation.

  • How to request some API endpoints easily

  • How to test your API gradually.

  • How to design a flexible and solid API architecture.

  • How to secure and optimize your API professionally (with the packages you absolutely need to know).

  • CORS on your API.

  • Building a client from scratch with React JS.

  • Calling the CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete) endpoints from your client.

  • How to document the API endpoints with JSDoc and OpenAPI.

  • And so much more will be covered in this course.


This JavaScript course will also cover some great packages that will change your life during the development of an API efficiently.


You will learn to create very easily a design in a matter of minutes, without any complicated CSS (just a few reusable components).


You will learn how to embrace your components with Styled-Components and understand the benefits of using it.


You will be able to add as many pages as needed in your React application thanks to React Router Dom.


At the end of this course, you will be comfortable enough to create an API from scratch by yourself, implement new endpoints, being comfortable with many packages (such as logging, rate-limiter, Yup schema validation, ...).

Icing on the cake, you will be confident to create a frontend client from scratch and use those endpoints to interact with the backend on your frontend JavaScript application.


At the end of the course, you will even learn how you can create different unit tests for your API.


You will be ready to start building any modern JavaScript web applications (API and/or client-side rendering) using NodeJS with ExpressJS and React.
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Instructor Details

Pierre-Henry Soria

Pierre-Henry Soria is a senior software engineer and technology builder with 12 years of experience across banking, food tech, health software and enterprise SaaS. He works across product engineering, software architecture and AI-native delivery. He created a long-running open-source platform and teaches software engineering through practical courses. Wellington, New Zealand is his primary market, with Australia and remote work also relevant.

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By Sasin Nisar on 10/10/2025

The content is good for someone who has knowledge of Javascript and wants to explore NodeJS. For something Advanced this may not be good fit for people with no prior basic knowledge of APIs and development.

By Nelida Guillen on 9/18/2025

Needs to be a little more specific or include more steps.

By Ridwan Rasyid on 1/12/2025

Maybe you can be more prepared in the further tutorial because we saw a lot of errors. But with these errors, we can learn what is wrong and how to resolve it.

By Johnny Ly on 11/5/2024

Great course for learning some NodeJS backend concepts, folder structure, and provides knowledge on various useful NPM packages for middleware, logging, running test cases, and more.

By Kasim Abubakar Jajere on 9/3/2024

The instructor explained the course in detail. I recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn Node.js and React, especially Node.js

By Mrat Naing Oo on 7/11/2024

It's clearly understood to learn fast & simple. Now I'm still learning the React for Frontend & Express JS for backend in this course. That's so fantastic & you'll get the extra knowledge in here even you didn't know exactly about the React & so on.

By Kaung Htet San on 1/5/2024

Even though some installations in earlier are kinda annoying. The way the instructor explain by far is pretty good to me.

By Asher Tetteh-Abotsi on 9/4/2023

For once I'm getting the hang of the concepts I did in school doing computer science and how they're needed .

By Josue AMENYENU on 8/1/2023

Ce cours est très instructif pour moi spécialement. Merci pour le travail et les efforts que vous avez investir dans ce cours...

By Justin Townsend on 9/14/2022

It was very informative in a short space of time, well done. Some of the videos spent quite a bit of time 'searching the internet' which could be made more succinct for future iterations and viewers. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge.

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