Showing posts with label axios. Show all posts
Showing posts with label axios. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2020

Build Rest API with NodeJS

Ain't this article cute? (with all the pictures, icons, emojis):

https://dev.to/lenmorld/quick-rest-api-with-node-and-express-in-5-minutes-336j (my 5 stars to this author)

Golden statement from the author: Rest API means providing an API to clients via HTTP Methods

https://www.positronx.io/build-secure-node-js-mongodb-express-restful-api-from-scratch/

Also, other useful links while practicing these exercises:

https://medium.com/@alexishevia/using-cors-in-express-cac7e29b005b

All in all, to overcome the CORS issue while playing around with express & rest api:

npm install cors

In server.js...
let cors = require('cors')
server.use(cors())

This would set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

https://alligator.io/react/axios-react/