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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10, Third Edition

You're reading from   RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10, Third Edition Learn to create robust RESTful web services with Node.js, MongoDB, and Express.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623322
Length 178 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Valentin Bojinov Valentin Bojinov
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. REST – What You Did Not Know FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Node.js 3. Building a Typical Web API 4. Using NoSQL Databases 5. Restful API Design Guidelines 6. Implementing a Full Fledged RESTful Service 7. Preparing a RESTful API for Production 8. Consuming a RESTful API 9. Securing the Application 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Querying the API using test data

We need some test data in order to test our service, so let's use the catalog.json file in the data directory of our project. This data will allow us to test all our three functions, but to do that, we would need a client that can send REST requests against an endpoint. If you still haven't created a Postman project for testing your application, now is an appropriate time to create it.

Requesting /catalog should return all the categories in the test file:

Thus, requesting /catalog/1 should result in returning a list with all the items under the Watches category:

Finally, requesting http://localhost:3000/catalog/1/item-identifier-1 would display only the item identified by item-identifier-1, and requesting a nonexistent item would result in response with status code 404:

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