Some Backend Packages

• morgan @types/morgan
• express @types/express
• multer @types/multer
• cloudinary or uploadthing
• zod
• compression @types/compression
• mongoose @types/mongoose
• http-errors
• ts-node-dev
• @types/node
• jsonwebtoken

Some devOps need

• Docker
• Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. check for dockerization to container
  Implementing Data Persistence:
  Connect your API to a database using an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) library like Sequelize or Mongoose.
  

npm i sequelize

[lern more about sequelize ](https://medium.com/@bthncm/building-scalable-and-maintainable-apis-with-node-js-and-express-js-9621c89b)

Use Conditional Requests

Conditional requests are HTTP requests which are executed differently depending on specific HTTP headers.