Node.js 8 the Right Way

Writing Modular Express Services

Throughout the remainder of the chapter, we’re going to build a RESTful web service with Express for creating and managing book bundles. These are basically named reading lists. Here’s an example of a book bundle:

{
  "name": "light reading",
  "books": [{
    "id": "pg132",
    "title": "The Art of War"
  },{
    "id": "pg2680",
    "title": "Meditations",
  },{
    "id": "pg6456",
    "title": "Public Opinion"
  }]
}

The name field is a user-defined string to identify the list. Names do not have to be unique. The books field contains a list of the books in that bundle. Each book is identified by its document ID and includes the title of the book.

Our app will be called Better Book Bundle ...