Lesson 2 — Request Size and Upload Safety

Topics

• Enforce file upload size limits
• Enforce request payload size limits
• Raw Node.js HTTP server construction
• Manual routing based on `req.url` and `req.method`
• Manual middleware composition
• Request validation with Zod
• Structured logging with Pino
• CORS and basic security headers
• Early route-level testing
• Build a JSON API for task management
• Store tasks in memory
• Implement `GET /tasks`, `POST /tasks`, `PUT /tasks/:id`, and `DELETE /tasks/:id`
• Parse JSON bodies safely
• Validate input with Zod
• Log every request with a request ID
• Set security-relevant headers manually
• Handle malformed JSON safely
• Enforce request body size limits
• Add a minimal route-level test suite
• Source repository
• README with API usage examples
• Curl or HTTPie examples
• Test evidence for success and failure cases
• Short architecture note explaining request flow

This lesson is finished