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Backend API Setup

Steps​

  1. In the demos directory, install json-server

    cd demos //if you aren't there already
    npm install json-server@0.16.2

  2. Create an api directory at the top level in your project so projectpilot\api

  3. Click this link to open this db.json file on Github

  4. On the Github page, in the upper right hand corner of the page click the Download ZIP button

  5. Open your downloads folder and find 196d97...zip and unzip it.

  6. Copy the db.json file inside the 196d97... directory into the projectpilot\api directory

  7. Open package.json

  8. Add the following script:

"scripts": {
    "start": "serve -s",
+    "api": "json-server ./api/db.json"
},

  1. Run the server

    npm run api

  2. You should see the following result:


\{^_^}/ hi!

Loading ./api/db.json
Done

Resources
http://localhost:3000/posts
http://localhost:3000/comments
http://localhost:3000/albums
http://localhost:3000/photos
http://localhost:3000/users
http://localhost:3000/todos

Home
http://localhost:3000