Mastering TypeScript 3 - Third Edition

Node REST testing

So far, we have created a GET AWS Lambda request handler, and a POST AWS Lambda handler. The GET requests are fairly simple to test, as we can simply copy and paste the URL into a web browser to execute a GET request. POST handlers, however, need a tool such as Postman in order to construct the correct data packet to send to the server. For the purposes of this exercise, let's use a very simple Node-based program that will issue a GET request to our TypeScript handler, and then issue a POST request.

When developing large-scale applications that use REST endpoints, we often need to use the results of a REST request as input into another REST request. As an example of this, consider an authentication REST endpoint that accepts ...