Raku Fundamentals: A Primer with Examples, Projects, and Case Studies

© Moritz Lenz 2020

M. LenzRaku Fundamentals https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6109-5_12

12. Creating a Web Service and Declarative APIs

Moritz Lenz¹ 

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Fürth, Bayern, Germany

 

Nowadays, it seems like every software must be reachable through the network, in the cloud.

Figure 12-1

The minimalistic web frontend to the datetime conversion app

In this spirit, we’ll take a look at a simple way to create a web service in Raku by using Cro,¹ a set of libraries that makes it easy to write asynchronous web clients and services. The name Cro comes from a terrible pun: it allows me to write microservices, my cro services.

Later in this chapter, we’ll take a look ...