Readings: CRUD

Status Codes Based On REST Methods

In your own words, describe what each group of status code represents:

• 100’s = informational statatus code that tells the client the header part of the reqest has been received.

• 200’s = success codes

• 300’s = redirection codes

• 400’s = client error codes, something is wrong on the client end

• 500’s = server error code, back end issues

• What is a status code 202?

  • Accepted, asynchronous processing. This code tells the client that the request was valid, but its processing will finish sometime in the future

• What is a status code 308?

  • Permanent Redirect - This is the right code if the resource will now be available at a new URL and the client should directly access it via the new URL in the future

• What code would you use if an update didn’t return data to a client?

  • 204

• What code would you use if a resource used to exist but no longer does?

  • 410 gone

• What is the ‘Forbidden’ status code?

  • 403

Videos

Build A REST API With Node.js, Express, & MongoDB - Quick - First 20 minutes

Why do we need to pull our MongoDB database string out of our server and put it into our .env?

• const mongoose // mogoose.connect // const.db = mongoose.connection

What is middleware?

• oftware that lies between an operating system and the applications running on it

What does app.use(express.json()) do?

• accpt json as a body

What does the /:id mean in a route?

• parameter we can access by using params

What is the difference between PUT and PATCH?

• pu will use all in for patch will only use a part of the information

How do you make a default value in a schema?

• default: date.now

What does a 500 error status code mean?

• internal server error

What is the difference between a status 200 and a status 201?

• 200 ok 201 created

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