Intro to Backends and Databases

Workshop Links

Watch Online

HackUTDWorkshop4.mkv

View Slide Deck

Try it yourself

Adityarathod - React Wordle Clone - StackBlitz

Finished example

Adityarathod - React Wordle Clone - StackBlitz

Additional Resources

Firestore Documentation

Read up on querying, real-time updates, and more: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

Other API Creation Options

Express.js: Allows you to create web APIs in Node.js. Express syntax is used by a lot of JavaScript web server libraries. Super minimal by default, has middleware to handle things like authentication/authorization, etc.

Express - Node.js web application framework

Gin: Web framework in Golang.

Gin Web Framework

Actix Web/Rocket/Warp/Tide: Web frameworks in Rust. (Not recommended unless you like Rust.)

Are we web yet?