Build a JSON API app with Node.js & Express.js — Step-by-step Guide

Kanan Rahimov
3 min readNov 2, 2020
How to Build a JSON API with Node.js?

In this video tutorial, my goal is to create an example Node.js backend API which can be used for React / Next.js projects. API will return a JSON response.

The thing is most of the parts of React / Next.js projects require working backend API so you can fetch data. It’s relatively easy to do so in Python or Golang. Usually with a few lines of code…

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