If you're familiar with Nuxt.js, you might know that the latest version, Nuxt version 3, runs on a new server engine called Nitro. Nitro isn't just used in Nuxt, it's also an independent open-source framework for developing web server applications. It provides several built-in features that make it a modern, user-friendly backend framework. Nitro is open-source and maintained by the same core team as Nuxt.js. In this blog post, we'll show you how to build a simple web server using Nitro and connect it to an SQLite database. We'll also explain the process of database migration with TypeORM, a popular typescript library, introduce the widely-used pattern for validating request data, the Data Transfer Object (DTO), and utilise some of Nitro's built-in features to cache results.

REST Client is a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension that allows you to send HTTP requests and view the responses directly in VS Code. In the past, my go-to application for testing my REST API endpoints was Postman. Postman has many advanced features that cannot be completely replaced with the REST Client extension. However, since you need to switch between two different apps (VS Code and Postman), I find REST Client to be more convenient 90% of the time I test my endpoints. In this brief blog article, I will explain how to set up global variables that can be reused in different environments within the REST Client extension.