Building a Node API with Express and Google Cloud SQL

Note: This is an ongoing series of blog posts detailing how we made an iOS & Android mobile app in 10 days. Feel free to follow me here or on Twitter to get updated when the other articles are published.

1. Building a Mobile App in 10 Days with React Native
2. Building a Node API with Express & Google Cloud SQL
3. Easy React Native Authentication: Auth0 (coming soon)
4. React Native: Barcode Scanning & Autocomplete (coming soon)
5. Using AirBnB’s Lottie Animations with React Native (coming soon)
6. Deploying a React Native App to the App Store & Google Play (coming soon)

Getting Started

In our last blog post, we described how we started building our React Native iOS & Android app. At a certain point, you’re going to want to stop writing dummy data directly in your code base and get some infrastructure in place to store things in a database.

Google Cloud was offering $300 in credit as a free trial, so we decided to build there. We need a couple of things:

1. A database
2. A Node.js API

Google SQL