This document provides an overview and roadmap for creating a RESTful API using Express and MongoDB. It discusses installing Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and Mongoose. It also covers using HTTP verbs like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE to perform CRUD operations on data stored in MongoDB via a RESTful API built with Express. Example curl commands are given to demonstrate making requests to the Express API to create, update, delete and retrieve data in a RESTful manner.