Setting Up Proxy

We saw how easy it is to setup a json api endpoint already in the previous page with a settings.json content like this

{

"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"

}]

will be returned

Some times you need certain specific endpoints to call out to an existing external api, e.g

https://api.github.com/users/octocat

The settings.json becomes

{

"config": [{

	"apiport": 8891,

	"routes": [
	
               {

               "route": "/octocat",

               "endpoint": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"

         }]

}]

} So that if you hit localhost:8891/octocat , you get data returned as if you had hit https://api.github.com/users/octocat

And if you still want the previous settings we had hitherto to apply as well along side, settings.json will look like this

{

"config": [{

	"apiport": 8891,

	"datasource": [{

		"mydata": [{

			"hey": "whatpp"

		}]

	}],

	"routes": [{

		"route": "/api/GetProducts3",

		"data": "mydata"

	},		

            {

            "route": "/octocat",

            "endpoint": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"

         }]

}]

}

Next >> https://github.com/getbackender/backender/wiki/TODO---Documentations-coming-up