Learn how to build an API using Node.js and open source tools. We will show how to construct a simple API, how to add OAuth authorization and other features, and how to deploy it to Apigee.

1. Building APIs with Node.js
Greg Brail, Scott Ganyo and Kevin Swiber

2. Overview
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Introduction to the stack
Building a simple API
Deploying it
Adding API Features using Volos
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3. Introduction to the Stack
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4. Node.js Stack
• API Middleware
– Volos
• Web app and API framework
– Argo
– Express
– others
• Runtime
– Node.js
– Trireme

5. Node.js
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Server-side platform for JavaScript
Support for HTTP(s)
Scalable and fast
Huge third-party community

6. Argo
• A framework for APIs
• A framework for proxies
• Middleware support
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7. Volos
• Node.js modules for API management
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OAuth
Quota
Cache
more to come
• MIT License
• Multiple back ends
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8. Demo: Building a Simple API
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9. Apigee Support

10. Node.js Support in Apigee
• Deploy Node.js applications to Apigee
– Directly from UI
– From source code
• Third party module support
• Combine with other policies

11. Using the Apigee UI
• Demo…
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12. Deploying to Apigee
• Demo…
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13. Volos
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14. Introduction to Volos
• OAuth 2.0
– Add OAuth 2.0 authorization support to any API
– Redis back end
– Apigee back end – makes API calls to Apigee
• Quota
– Count API calls by time and by any identifier (API key, etc.)
– Local back end (in memory)
– Apigee back end
• Cache
– Cache arbitrary data
– Local back end (in memory)
– Redis and Apigee in the works
• More to come
– Open source…

15. Volos Modules
• Add a quota to the app using the volos-quota module
• Deploy it to Apigee
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16. Demo: Basic Volos App
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17. Demo: More Complete App

18. We would love your feedback!
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