Lesson 2 of 3•Building Web Apps with AI Assistance0 of 3 complete (0%)
Backend & APIs
11 min
What you will learn
- Use AI to design and build RESTful API routes in Next.js
- Connect to databases using Prisma ORM with AI-generated schemas
- Implement authentication and protect routes using NextAuth.js
- Write prompts that produce secure, production-quality backend code
# Backend & APIs
Building APIs with AI is powerful but requires more discipline than frontend work. A wrong color is cosmetic. A wrong API response is a bug. A missing auth check is a vulnerability.
API Design with AI
Start by designing your API before implementing it:
> I'm building a bookmark manager app. Design the REST API:
- Users can CRUD bookmarks (title, url, description, tags)
- Users can only access their own bookmarks
- Support filtering by tag and searching by title
- Support pagination
List each endpoint with its method, path, request body, and response shape.This gives you a specification to review BEFORE any code is written.
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What you'll learn:
- Use AI to design and build RESTful API routes in Next.js
- Connect to databases using Prisma ORM with AI-generated schemas
- Implement authentication and protect routes using NextAuth.js