HTTP Routing

README provided by Alchemy Code Lab

• Copy over your simple-database files into lib/models and test/models

people

• create a people rest API
• user simple-database to save people
• a person is has name, age, and favorite color
• POST /people creates a new person and sends back json
• GET /people returns a list of people
• GET /people/:id returns a person with :id
• PUT /people/:id updates a person with :id and returns the update
• DELETE /people/:id deletes a person with :id and returns the delete count

routing people

• split out routing logic into lib/routing/people.js
• your exported function should take req and res.
  • attach the body to the req req.body = body
• BONUS: can you improve your people router?
  • HINT:
    • create a function for each method (post, get, put, delete).
    • create an object where the method name is the key and the function is the value
    • grab the method from the object using methods[req.method.toLowerCase()]
    • invoke method with req and res

Not found

• create a lib/routing/notFound.js function
• your exported function should take req and res.
• set the status code to 404
• respond with "Not Found"
• Use the notFound function in your people api (when your don't support a route)

tasks

• add a new tasks resource to your API
• a task has a description and a title
• create a new task model lib/models/task.js
• create a new task router lib/routes/task.js
• POST /tasks creates a new task and sends back json
• GET /tasks returns a list of tasks
• GET /tasks/:id returns a task with :id
• PUT /tasks/:id updates a task with :id and returns the update
• DELETE /tasks/:id deletes a task with :id and returns the delete count
• conditionally route to tasks or people

Add another resource

• add another resource (e.g. toys, restaurants, books, etc.)

add a favorite character to your people

• people now have a favorite star wars character
• when a person is created via POST a favoriteCharacterId will be sent: *

{
  name: 'Uncle Bob',
  age: 100, favoriteColor: 'red', favoriteCharacterId: 1
}

• look up the favoriteCharacter with the star wars api https://swapi.co/
  • HINT: make a service like the rickAndMortyApi.js
• save the favoriteCharacter along with the person (only store name, height, mass, hairColor, birthYear)

{
  name: 'Uncle Bob',
  age: 100, favoriteColor: 'red', favoriteCharacterId: 1
  favoriteCharacter: {
	  name: 'Luke Skywalker',
	  height: '172',
	  mass: '77',
	  hairColor: 'blond',
	  birthYear: '19BBY'
  }
}

• when a person is updated via PUT update the favoriteCharacter also
  • BONUS: only make a new api request if the favoriteCharacter changed