Skipping out on validation leaves you vulnerable. Without it you could end up leaking sensitive user data. Or worse, you could lose control of your servers and be held to ransom by malicious attackers.
You want to avoid all these potential headaches. You sit down with Express and try and put in place all the things you need for a great API validation solution:
- Parsing requests
- Validating requests
- Sending back validation errors in a useful format
To make it worse, you can't seem to find any API validation best practices for the Express framework. What you have works, but it's clumsy. You're worried that you're doing it the wrong way.
What if you had a go-to validation library? A library which you trusted and could integrate into your Express APIs with ease.
Wouldn't it be amazing if you knew how to send awesome, standardized error responses?
You could confidently apply validation best practices to every Express API you create. You would be able to focus your time on building features. You would have validation taken care of.
Implementing validation in Express APIs takes up way more of your time than it should.
Learn the essentials of Express API validation with my book. With it you'll gain a deep understanding of "the Express way" for validation. Learn how to validate requests and send back awesome error responses with ease. Discover the power of the JSON Schema and Problem Details specifications. Then use them to help you conquer validation in Express.
- A guide to the different types of Express middleware, and how to combine them to do validation "the Express way".
- An introduction to the JSON Schema specification and the Ajv library. Two powerful tools for validating requests.
- What the Problem Details specification is all about. How you can apply it as a format for sending helpful and consistent error responses.
- Recipes for common validation scenarios. Setting default values, providing custom error messages and validating your schemas.
- Full working code examples which you can run and try for yourself.
Take care of validation in your Express APIs once and for all and buy my book. You'll be fearlessly validating requests in no time.
- The book in PDF format (light and dark)
- Access to the online version of the book
- Full code examples
- My JSON Schema Cheat Sheet