https://tutsplus.com/course/how-to-build-a-hypermedia-driven-rest-api/ by @rhodesjason
In this video series we’ll walk through building a simple REST API with node.js and express. By focusing on nouns, verbs, and relationships, you'll also finish with a clear understanding of what hypermedia is all about and how emerging hypermedia-driven API standards can make all of our lives as developers a little easier. ~ Jason Rhodes
This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:
getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
// the rest of your code goes here.
https://github.com/djvirgen/virgen-acl Simple and elegant, create your own checks. No middleware?
https://github.com/OptimalBits/node_acl Use as middleware, create your own roles and access. Great choice.
https://github.com/tschaub/authorized Similar to connect roles... but a bit more robust? you can create roles and action, and associate many roles with that action