Learn React Hooks

Creating the db.json file

To be able to use the json-server tool, first we need to create a db.json file, which is going to contain our full database for the server. The json-server tool will allow you to make the following:

• GET requests, to fetch data from the file
• POST requests, to insert new data into the file
• PUT and PATCH requests, to adjust existing data
• DELETE requests, to remove data

For all modifying actions (POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE), the updated file will automatically be saved by the tool.

We can use our existing structure for posts, which we defined as the default state of the posts reducer. However, we need to make sure that we provide an id value, so that we can query the database later:

[    { "id": "react-hooks", "title" ...