Working as a frontend engineer and building a dummy or proof-of-concept project without a complete backend might be very challenging to set up REST API’s. You can use Firebase or many other things to setup backend without writing much code. BUT, There is a way to set up an incredibly simple backend server running on your localhost. It will be a Node project. Let’s assume you have a frontend, we can create a backend server using an NPM module json-server. Let name your node project “FakeBackend”.
Steps:
- Make a directory FakeBackend
- cd FakeBackend
- npm init
- Follow the setup CLI by providing basics info for you Node project
- npm install json-server -g
- Make a db.json file. Run touch db.json
- You need to watch that file
- In package.json write a start script as => json-server -p 3007 -w db.json
- Put your JSON in db.json
- npm start
That is all you have to do if you want to set up a fake backend server :)
Making an API call from POSTMAN
GET ::: localhost:3007/profile
{
"name": "yogendra",
"age": 25,
"country": "INDIA",
"profession": "Engineer"
}
If you make a POST call, then data will automatically get updated in db.json.
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npm install
npm start
or
npx json-server -p 3007 -w db.json
Yogendra Saxena
