Beginning API Development with Node.js

Exercise 18: Cleaning up the Code

Now that we have almost updated all our routes that we had from Chapter 2, Building the API – Part 1, let's now remove all the code that is no longer needed:

1. Remove the previously hardcoded list of todos:

const todoList = [...];

2. Remove the PUT: /todo/<id> route object:

{  method: 'PUT',  path: '/todo/{id}',  handler: (request, reply) =>  {    const index = request.params.id - 1;    // replace the whole resource with the new one    todoList[index] = request.payload;    return reply({ message: 'updated' });  },},

3. Reimplement the DELETE: /todo/<id> route object, very similar to Exercise 17: Deleting a Record; the difference is just the route:

{  method: 'DELETE',  path: '/todo/{id}',  handler: async (request, reply) => { ...