Consuming a microservice
In this recipe, we'll create an Express.js web application that will consume the loopback-bookstore microservice created in the previous recipe, Generating a microservice with LoopBack. This will demonstrate how modern web architectures are implemented on the basis of the microservice pattern.
Getting ready
This recipe we will be consuming the microservice created in the Generating a microservice with LoopBack recipe. If you have not completed that recipe, you can obtain the code from the Packt GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Node.js-14-Cookbook in the Chapter11/loopback-bookstore directory.
We'll also be creating a frontend web application; we'll be using the Express.js generator to create a base for our web application. For more information on the Express.js generator, refer to the Building web applications with Express.js recipe in Chapter 6, Exploring Node.js Web Frameworks.
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