Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

Your fake backend simply returns any file in the current MockRest folder. As you get more sample responses from the backend developer, you can copy them into this folder to provide additional backend endpoints.

This section does not provide examples of how to handle POST and complex scenarios where the responses depend on request parameters. You may want to keep the code to handle temporary cases as simple as possible since they are not production code. The recommendation is to return the same content for each POST request as well.

Let's take a look at quote.ts, because it's the main place where the Http request is made. First, you need to import Injectable and Http, which you can do as follows:

import {Injectable} from '@angular/core'; ...