Summary

In this chapter, we have gone through the different aspects of RESTful design and implemented them into our application. We have assessed the layers of our application, enabling us to refactor the middleware to enable two different futures to be processed depending on the outcome. This doesn’t just stop at authorizing requests. Based on the parameters of the request, we could implement middleware to redirect requests to other servers, or directly respond with a code-on-demand response that makes some changes to the frontend and then makes another API call. This approach gives us another tool, custom logic with multiple future outcomes in the middleware before the view is hit.

We then refactored our path struct to make the interface uniform, preventing clashes between frontend and backend views.

We then explored the different levels of logging and logged all our requests to highlight silent yet undesirable behavior. After refactoring our frontend to rectify this...