Node.js 8 the Right Way

Manipulating Documents RESTfully

In the first half of this chapter, you developed APIs for discovering and returning books based on a variety of search criteria. In this second half, you’ll be creating APIs for manipulating book bundles. Recall that a book bundle has a name and maintains a collection of related books.

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"
  }]
}

Creating these APIs will be programmatically more intensive than creating the search APIs because they require more back-and-forth between your Node.js service and the ...