tphdev / activity--express-routes

Express Routes

Implement Router function from Express

Setup Instructions

In terminal

# (1) navigate to your activities directory
$ cd ~/Documents/muktek/activities

# (2) Clone the repo and save it into activity--express-routes
$ git clone https://github.com/agzeri/starter-repo--express-routes.git activity--express-routes

$ cd activity--express-routes

# (3) Install all dependencies
$ npm install

In File

(1) Create a routes folder

(2) Inside routes folder, create a apiRouter file

(3) Import Router from Express.JS framework

Don’t forget to export the module.

(4) Create four routes to handle RESTful services

GET     /api/courses
POST    /api/courses
PUT     /api/courses/{id}
DELETE  /api/courses/{id}
GET     /api/courses/{id}

GET     /api/instructors
POST    /api/instructors
DELETE  /api/instructors/{id}
GET     /api/instructors/{id}

GET     /api/students
GET     /api/students/{id}
POST    /api/students

# Courses

[{
  id: 1,
  name: "Introduction to JavaScript",
  length: "15 hours"
}, {
  id: 2,
  name: "React.js Fundamentals",
  length: "25 hours"
}]

# Instructors

[{
  id: 1,
  name: "Mr R"
}, {
  id: 2,
  name: "Tyler"
}, {
  id: 3,
  name: "John Die"
}]

# Students

[{
  id: 1,
  name: "Damian Allende"
}, {
  id: 2,
  name: "Cesar Hernandez"
}, {
  id: 3,
  name: "Ingrid Garcia"
}, {
  id: 4,
  name: "Maribel Navia"
}]

Hint 1: For DELETE and PUT requests, you can play responding with a message like: "Making a DELETE/PUT request on {course/instructor/students} endpoint with id: «value»"

Hint 2: For GET requests, return all data and filter if it’s necessary (GET individual endpoints)

(5) Configure in app.js the apiRouter file

Test all routes using Postman.

Explorer Mode

• Send actual data to POST /api/courses endpoint.
  • To do this, you’ll need to capture data from body request. Read more about here.