Design and Build Great Web APIs

Solution for Chapter 8: Building APIs

In Chapter 8, ​Building APIs​, the task was to use the design assets to implement a working API service using NodeJS and the DARRT library. The three key tasks are these:

• Install the DARRT library into your NodeJS project.

• Update your DARRT files (data, action, resources, representations, and transitions).

• Once the API is completed, run a “happy path” validator script.

The instructions in the chapter also included a hint on how to initialize your NodeJS project using npm to update the project dependencies and start up the API service using nodemon.

Install the DARRT Library

The /before/ version of this exercise has the DARRT library already installed. I did that to copy a few hints into the script to make ...