Getting low-level with WebBroker

The most simple and generic web server development framework in Delphi is WebBroker. It is the underlying technology for many specialized web service types that you can build with Delphi, such as SOAP XML Web Services and DataSnap. If you create a new web server app with the New WebBroker App wizard, you can implement arbitrary HTTP server functionality. In our case, that will be a simple web service that will provide REST API access to the To-Do data.

Click on the File | New | Other... menu items in the IDE and double-click on the New Web Server Application wizard in the WebBroker category, as shown in the following screenshot:

New Web Server Application wizard in New Items

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