Otso code camp client examples for Backand API (https://www.backand.com/)

Backand is a powerful backend-as-a-service for AngularJS and ReactJS that provides out-of-the-box social login, real-time communication, Ionic integration and much more.

How to use Backand to create a simple API

• Register account or use your GitHub account.
• Add a new app
• See the default database model in Objects -> Model
• When you make changes to the model, do not forget to "Validate & Update" on the right up corner everynow and then to save the changes.
• Data (for example 'items' in the Default Data Model) can be entered from Objects -> items -> + Add Row
• For examples on how to use the API see Objects -> items -> REST API tab where you can edit the parameters that you need in a request to the backend.

How to use ready examples to connect to the Backand API

• There are couple examples in this git repository or you can use Backand's examples: https://www.backand.com/app-examples/
• Backand requires a Anonymous Token in order to use the API from a client application without registering any account
• Anymous Token can be found from Security & Auth -> Configuration -> AnonymousToken
• This token must be sent with the requests to the API in the request Headers as "anonymousToken" (more instructions in the README file of the example directory).

Setting up development in C9

• Create account at https://c9.io/ or use your GitHub account.
• Create a new nodejs workspace using this git address https://github.com/otso-cc/code-camp-health.git

Clone this examples repository using the console if you did not use the address in the previous step

git clone https://github.com/otso-cc/code-camp-health.git

Already familiar with REST APIs and HTTP verbs?

• Start a project with any technology and start hacking away with the API usage examples in Objects -> [data model] -> REST API :)