jr-todos-api-walkthrough

The purpose of this project is to gain some practical experience on how to build an basic API server with Express.js, by achieving the following tasks:

• build up a basic express server with GET, POST, PUT, DELETE methods
• utilise middleware
• structure the project, so it's more maintainable and clean

There is no database in this project, memory used to mimic the data storage

Demo

API Documentation

Web interface for testing your local sever

Journey begins

1. Basic express server

• init the project and install express
• setup an express server
• build up the server with CRUD operations

code after step 1

2. Format project structure

• explain a better project structure
• extract common logic to middleware
• extract routes and controllers

code after step 2

3. Other useful packages

• cors
• morgan
• dotenv
• helmet
• winston

code after step 3

4. OpenAPI documentation

• Swagger

code after step 4