This is Part 3 of a series of labs working towards building your first full stack web app.

• Part 1 - TDD todo list
• Part 2 - Mongo todo list
• Part 3 - (this repo)
• Part 3.1 - Mocha, Chai and Supertest todo list (Optional)
• Part 4 - Express todo list pt2
• Part 5 - Multi Model todo list
• Part 6 - Users todo list

So far we've built a TODO list application that uses the command line as the user interface. Let's take this a step forward and use what we've learnt about express to create a web server interface. For this version we'll just be working with JSON data to build a RESTful API.

• Fork and clone this repository
• Run npm install to install dependencies
• npm start - run the server

• Create an Express app
• This app will only respond to JSON; it is just an API, so don't worry about the views
• The resource Todo should be accessible via the endpoint /todos and be RESTful
• Implement index,show, create, update, and destroy functionality

Try to keep your express code organized as we taught. Main app code should be in index.js and your express routes in controllers/todos.js

Once you spin up your local server, look below at the cURL commands with the expected responses we want you to test on this app once you've finished building - the HTTP status should always be 2XX.

Index cURL Request

curl -XGET http://localhost:3000/todos

• Example Response

[{"id":1234,"name":"Write Code","description":"Write a Super Project", "completed":"false"},
{"id":13456,"name":"Chew Gum","description":"Must Chew some gum", "completed":"true"}]

Show cURL Request

curl -XGET http://localhost:3000/todos/1234

• Expected Response

{"id":1234,"name":"Write Code","description":"Write a Super Project", "completed":"false"}

Create cURL Request

curl -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"Buy Cake","description":"you can never have too much"}' http://localhost:3000/todos

• Example Response

  {"id":3564,"name":"Buy Cake","description":"you can never have too much", "completed":"false"}

• A second IndexcURL Request

  curl -XGET http://localhost:3000/todos

  • Expected Response

  [{"id":1234,"name":"Write Code","description":"Write a Super Project", "completed":"false"},
  {"id":13456,"name":"Chew Gum","description":"Must Chew some gum", "completed":"true"},
  {"id":3564,"name":"Buy Cake","description":"you can never have too much", "completed":"false"}]

  Note: The new record is sent back !

Update cURL Request

curl -XPUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"Buy Cheese Cake"}' http://localhost:3000/todos/3564

Another Index Request

curl -XGET http://localhost:3000/todos

• Expected Response

[{"id":1234,"name":"Write Code","description":"Write a Super Project", "completed":"false"},
{"id":13456,"name":"Chew Gum","description":"Must Chew some gum", "completed":"true"},
{"id":3564,"name":"Buy Cheese Cake","description":"you can never have too much", "completed":"false"}]

The record corresponding to the ID passed in the first request has been updated

Destroy cURL Request

curl -XDELETE http://localhost:3000/todos/3564

• Expected Response

  {"message":"deleted"}

Index cURL request, again!

curl -XGET http://localhost:3000/todos

• Expected Response

[{"id":1234,"name":"Write Code","description":"Write a Super Project", "completed":"false"},
{"id":13456,"name":"Chew Gum","description":"Must Chew some gum", "completed":"true"}]

Note: The record corresponding to the ID passed in the first request has been deleted.

• Curl Manual
• ExpressJS documentation

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