leolipes / 42labs

Create an API and CLI in C

42Labs (Selective Process)

The project consists of a week creating a REST API and a CLI using the C programming language where creativity is the limit. This challenge is an opportunity to take the first step into the market with the 42Labs program from 42 São Paulo.

Contents

• Tools

• API

• CLI

• Collaborators

• Bibliography

Tools

Development tools:

• Development tools such as git, gcc and make

To install development tools in Ubuntu:

• apt-get install build-essential

To make a flowchart:

• Whimsical:

API:

CLI:

Libraries

Mongoose:

- Installation:

• Access Mongoose to access the User Guide.

Libcurl:

- Installation:

• apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

Flags for compilation:

• -lcurl

Test tools

VS Code Thunder Client extension.

API:

API will get you out of boredom or probably make you laugh

How to use:

To make a Request:

Commands:

• make run
• Acess localhost

GET: /

• return: Activity suggestions.

GET: /joke

• return: Random Jokes.

CLI (Command Line Interface)

CLI will show real-time log file data.

How to use:

• make run

Collaborators:

• Flavio (flda-sil)

• Gabriel (gsilva-v)

• Gustavo (gusalves)

Bibliography:

A anatomia de uma API RESTful

Qual é a diferença entre HTTP e HTTPS?

API REST: o que é e como montar uma API sem complicação?

Afinal, o que é JSON e para que ele serve?

URI vs. URL: What’s the Difference?

Big List of Free and Open Public APIs (No Auth Needed)

O que é um endpoint: Como proteger este tipo de dispositivo

Libcurl

Mongoose Library