harryandriyan / form-builder-db

Deploy json-server to {{ free hosting site }}

Instructions how to deploy the full fake REST API json-server to various free hosting sites. Should only be used in development purpose but can act as a simpler database for smaller applications.

• Create your database
• Deploy to Glitch

Create your database

1. Press the green Use this template-button in the right corner of this repo
2. Give your new repo a name and press the green Create repository from template-button
3. Clone your newly created repository to your computer

4 . Change the contents of db.json to your own content according to the json-server example and then commit your changes to git locally.

this example will create /posts route , each resource will have id, title and content. id will auto increment!

{
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "title": "First post!",
      "content": "My first content!"
    }
  ]
}

Deploy to Glitch

Not tested 100%. Same as with Heroku, will sleep after a while.

1. Register for Glitch or go to Glitch/edit
2. Click New Project
3. Click Import from GitHub
4. Paste https://github.com/harryandriyan/form-builder-db into the URL-input and click OK.
5. Wait for it to setup
6. Press Share-button to get your URL to live site. It should be something for example like: https://seemly-truthful-scribe.glitch.me/. And your DB will be at https://seemly-truthful-scribe.glitch.me/posts