Each functionality for each application you create in your career as a developer will be unique to the purpose of your website. This means that the functionality of an application depends on the purpose of the website that is being created. An API is used to create functions and procedures for the application.

These are some common technologies used for creating an application.

API (Application Programming Interface).By the end of this tutorial, you will have made the connection between these commonly discussed topics and terms: If you have not been exposed to any of these terms, this tutorial will expose you to some of the common topics and terms regarding how to run your app on a server. What is a RESTful API? CRUD? Node.js environment? Express.js? Knex.js? And how can you use these on your database?īefore we dive into how we even begin to run our app on a server, let’s discuss some key concepts we have been exposed to. We will use a PostgreSQL database to create a RESTful API while using Knex.js for migration and seeding and express.js as our backend server.

Tableplus auto increment