Design and Build Great Web APIs

Installing the Local Utiltities

I wrote a few local utilities to help you handle some assignments in the book. These are simple command-line tools that you can modify to better fit your needs.

All the apps are in the code/utilities/ folder in the downloadable source code for this book. You’ll find three folders there, one for each utility app: norman, wsd-gen, and wsd-util.

norman

The norman utility helps automate deployment tasks. We’ll use it in Chapter 11, ​Deploying APIs​. You can install the norman utility by moving into that folder (/code/utilities/norman/) and typing the following on the command line:

npm -g install

You can test the install by typing the following on the command line and checking the response:

$ norman --help
Usage: ...