node-api/README.md

Basic API server (Node.js + Express.js, TypeScript version)

Abstract

A basic functional template for creating an API server using Node.js + Express.js using TypeScript.

Test

The template is functional and you can test it using HTTPie, curl or Postman.

Start the API server

$>npm run dev

Response

api_srvr@1.0.0 dev nodemon ./src/apisrvr.ts

[nodemon] 3.0.2 [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter rs [nodemon] watching path(s): . [nodemon] watching extensions: ts,json [nodemon] starting ts-node ./src/apisrvr.ts Basic API Server listening on Port:3000 TypeScript Version Press Ctrl-C to exit

Test with HTTPie

Using another terminal, run the following wommand

$>http localhost:3000/

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 16 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:23:55 GMT ETag: W/"10-bZZA7c+e/eSluV2PjdNck3t/8tA" Keep-Alive: timeout=5 X-Powered-By: Express

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