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🗒️ Class 12

Status Codes Based On REST Methods

• In your own words, describe what each group of status code represents:

  • 100’s = This group of code represents the connection or any other informational status code
  • 200’s = This group of code represents success codes
  • 300’s = This group of code represents redirection codes
  • 400’s = This group of code represents Client error codes
  • 500’s = This group of code represents Server error codes
• What is a status code 202?

  Status code 202 is the Accepted status code

• What is a status code 308?

  Status code 308 is the Permanent Redirect code

• What code would you use if an update didn’t return data to a client?

  Status Code 204 - No Content

• What code would you use if a resource used to exist but no longer does?

  Status Code 410 - Gone

• What is the ‘Forbidden’ status code?

  Status Code 401

Build A REST API With Node.js, Express, & MongoDB

• Why do we need to pull our MongoDB database string out of our server and put it into our .env?

  We put that string into our .env file because it contains our db’s admin username and password

• What is middleware?

  Middleware is code that handles code between te client and server

• What does app.use(express.json()) do?

  Allows an app to use JSON data in the request body.

• What does the /:id mean in a route?

  It means its a dynamic route

• What is the difference between PUT and PATCH?

  PUT updates the entire file and PATCH is a partial update

• How do you make a default value in a schema?

  By adding the default property in the schema definition

• What does a 500 error status code mean?

  Status 500 is a server error

• What is the difference between a status 200 and a status 201?

  200 is a success code and 201 is a success code but also signifies the backend resource has been created.