Node API server setupįirst things first, you'll need to make sure you have Node.js installed on your machine and preferably an up to date version of NPM.
What's more, I wanted to serve and edit real data from physical JSON files as a simple filestore database – this would save a lot of faff involving MongoDB or SQL Lite both great, but overkill for this job.įor crying out loud, shouldn't it be easy to just make a Node API server that saves data to JSON files?!Īfter what felt like a decade of rummaging through complex documentation and hundreds of StackOverflow answers, I found a brilliant article by Nic Raboy from as long ago as 2015! I think the article misses out a few of the necessary 'real world' end points such as POST that actually interact with a real datastore - in this case, JSON files.īut enough preamble, let's do this thing! Strap in, it's gonna be a long one!! 1.
Driven by a recent need to create a local API server to provide me some data-serving end points to a React app, I ran into a few huge walls.Īlthough there are a lot of articles out there detailing how to create a Node API server locally, some don't cover enough ground (especially from examples of how to use) or are overly complex.
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