API-server-without-code

How to easily create and host your own REST API without writing a single line of code ?

• We will see how to easily create your own REST API server to be accessible on the internet without coding and without the need of hosting it on any hosting provider.

Important

• This concept is only used for get operation or display functionallity through githup.

Requirements :

• Node.js
• Git
• Post Man

Setup local environment :

• Create a new folder or project with the name API-Server-Without-Code.

• Open the command line on the new folder.

• Enter the following commands (Installing the Node.js)

  • npm init -y

    • This will create a package.json file inside your project.

  • npm install json-server

    • Create a new file with the name .gitignore with the entry for node_modules inside it so the node_modules folder will not be pushed to GitHub while pushing the code to the GitHub repository.

• Create a new file with the name db.json, inser the following content:

    {
      "users": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "name": "Rajkumar",
          "age": 22
        },
        {
          "name": "Shanmugam",
          "id": 2,
          "age": 50
        }
      ]
    }

• Open package.json file and add the scripts section inside it:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "json-server db.json"
  }
  

Deploy on local :

• Now, start the application by running the npm start command from the command line.
• open http://localhost:3000/users or http://localhost:3000/Collection_Name

Deploy on githup:

• First create one repository on the githup.
• After push the folder into the correspond repository.
• https://my-json-server.typicode.com/GIT_USER_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME
  • Eg : https://my-json-server.typicode.com/RajkumarShanmugam1/API-server-without-code