hoganl / 09-persistence

Lab 09: Vanilla REST API w/ Persistence

Submission Instructions

• fork this repository & create a new branch for your work
• push to your repository
• submit a pull request to this repository
• submit a link to your PR in canvas
• write a question and observation on canvas

Learning Objectives

• students will learn how to save resource data to the file system for a layer of data persistence
• students will learn how to refactor commonly used coding constructs into custom helper modules

Requirements

Configuration

• Reference the file structure of this template for the configuration files you need and folder structure
• README.md
  • your README.md should include detailed instructions on how to use your API
  • this should include documentation on how to access your API endpoints

Feature Tasks

• continue working on your vanilla REST API
• refactor your routes to be contained in a separate module (ex: route/resource-route.js)
• refactor your res messages & status codes to be contained in a separate module (ex: response.js)
• refactor the storage.js module to use file system persistence
  • use the fs module to create and read the associated data files
  • the name of the file should contain the related resource id