Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

API endpoints for user CRUD

To enable and handle user CRUD operations on the user database, the backend will implement and expose API endpoints that the frontend can utilize in the views, as follows:

Operation	API route	HTTP method
Create a user	/api/users	POST
List all users	/api/users	GET
Fetch a user	/api/users/:userId	GET
Update a user	/api/users/:userId	PUT
Delete a user	/api/users/:userId	DELETE
User sign-in	/auth/signin	POST
User signout (optional)	/auth/signout	GET

Some of these user CRUD operations will have protected access, which will require the requesting client to be authenticated, authorized, or both, as defined by the feature specifications. The last two ...