Chapter 8. Interacting with a Server
Now that Code Café has a polished, responsive UI, you are ready to add functionality. The site should not just be an online menu with a static collection of items. Instead, it should be the front end for data on a server. By the end of this chapter, Code Café will fetch the items from an API, making it easier to remove out-of-stock items and update prices.
To make this happen, you will first set up a back-end server and then make a network request to load the items from the server.
Setting Up the Server
Your downloaded resources file includes a server for Code Café called code-cafe-backend.
Open a new terminal window or tab and navigate to the code-cafe-backend directory:
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