Month: September 2015

So in the last post we went over the project structure. This time, we’ll actually modify some of the code to create our own RESTful web service.

If you don’t know what a RESTful web service is, you should check out the wikipedia entry for it.

As discussed in the previous post, all of our routes are defined in files located in the routes folder which are then referenced and collated in the app.js file. So, to create our own RESTful API, we need to do something in this area.

Lets checkout the index.js file and see whats in it.

Now that we have a basic express web app created, lets go through the project structure.

package.json
In the last post we briefly went through the purpose of package.json. Now its time to go through it in bit more detail. As the extension .json indicates, data in this file is in json format. Yours should look something like this: