Setting Up A Simple JSON API Endpoint

In the Getting Started page , we saw that we can create a settings.json file to setup how we want out system to behave like.

The simplest settings.json file content looks like this

{

"config": [{

	"apiport": 8891

}]

}

This creates a server available at port 8891 on the local host ie http://localhost:8891/

This is based on the fantastic gulp-json-server library https://github.com/GrafGenerator/gulp-json-server

You can setup what you'll find when you get to a certain path. For example to set up an api end point http://localhost:8891/api/GetProducts3, the settings will look like this

{

"config": [{

	"apiport": 8891,

	"routes": [{

		"route": "/api/GetProducts3"

	}]

}]

}

But to setup a reference to the data to return at the end point , settings.json becomes

{

"config": [{

	"apiport": 8891,

	"routes": [{

		"route": "/api/GetProducts3",

		"data": "mydata"

	}]

}]

}

In this case the reference to the data we want to return is "mydata" But to actually provide what data to return, settings.json becomes

{

"config": [{

	"apiport": 8891,

	"datasource": [{

		"mydata": [{

			"hey": "whatpp"

		}]

	}],

	"routes": [{

		"route": "/api/GetProducts3",

		"data": "mydata"

	}]

}]

}

Now we have, in doing so, specified that when we hit http://localhost:8891/api/GetProducts3, the json data

[{

"hey": "whatpp"

}]

which just happens to be a list of objects specified in , will, indeed, be returned

Next >> https://github.com/getbackender/backender/wiki/Setting-Up-Proxy