Day 10: Create a Restful API with CRUD operations using Node.js and Express | By Dipak Ahirav | February 2025

Learn to build a fully functional Restful API with CRUD operations using Node.js and Express.js from zero.

Welcome Day 10 of our Daily challenges of Node.js series! Today, we will focus on building a Restful API working Create, read, update and delete (CRUD) Operations. The REST APIs are the backbone of modern web applications, allowing communication between the front and the backend.

At the end of this challenge, you will have a functional rest API using Node.js,, Expressand a database in memory (for simplicity). Let’s start! 🚀

Your task: Build a restful API with CRUD features to manage a collection of users. More specifically, the API will support the following operations:

1. Create a new user
2. Read All users or one user per ID
3. Update One User by ID
4. DELETE One User by ID

First of all, create a new project and install the necessary packages:

mkdir node-crud-api
cd…