rautellin / project-express-api

Express API | Node.js, Express API

Express API

An API using Express with a couple of RESTful endpoints which return either an array of data, or a single item

View it live

https://rautellin-express-api.herokuapp.com/

What I got to learn 🧠

• How to build an API in Node using Express
• How to install and setup an Express server
• How to create routes in Express
• Practice data manipulation in JavaScript - selecting, filtering, and limiting arrays
• How to deploy Node projects

Requirements reached 🧪

• The api has a couple of RESTful endpoints which return either an array of data, or a single item
• The API have at least 2 routes - with a minimum of one to return a collection of results, and one to return a single result
• The API is deployed to Heroku
• The API is RESTful

Strech goals reached 🧘

• Implemented accepting filters via query parameters to filter the data you return from endpoints which return an array of data
• Implemented pagination using .slice() to return only a selection of results from the array
• Implemented next and previous page for the pagination, such as maximum pages
• Implemented empty result when returning a single item and the item doesn't exist