Add Micro-Byte: REST API

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MicroByte Title: REST API

Domain: Web | Backend (Node.js)

Scope of learning for learners: How to create a service that supports one GET and one POST request and responds back?

Activities:

• Real world examples as to what are REST APIs and why are they needed.
• Code snippets of how we can create APIs using raw Node.js (without any packages) and a full understanding of it
• In flow short explanations of the 'Event Loop' of Node.js
• Reasoning as to how packages can make our task a bit easier in terms of writing the same thing
• Introduction of Express JS
• Code snippets as to how we can create the same APIs using Express JS and detailed explanation of all variations of achieving it