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100ms publishes Node.js backend guide for room and token management

100ms published a guide to building a sample backend server using Node.js. This server leverages 100ms REST APIs for tasks such as creating video conferencing rooms, generating authentication tokens, and retrieving usage analytics.

Key Takeaways

The sample backend is built on Node.js.
The guide uses 100ms REST APIs to create video conferencing rooms.
It shows how to generate auth tokens for 100ms apps.
It includes a path to retrieve usage analytics from the backend server.

Why It Matters

For developers building on 100ms, the guide fills in the backend side of a video app stack: room creation, token generation, and usage analytics. That matters because these are core operational tasks, not just front-end SDK work. It also shows 100ms is packaging REST-based examples around the infrastructure its app builders need most. The concrete signal to watch is whether 100ms adds more sample backend patterns beyond Node.js, since this guide is explicitly framed as a sample server.