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Make your own API under 30 lines of code

Shreyas Pahune on September 24, 2021

Hey readers 👋🏻, in this blog we are going to discuss about making our own API in just 30 lines of code. Topics Covered : What is an AP...

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Roland • Sep 25 '21

Hi Shreyas, I enjoyed the article. It was simple and to the point.

For the get request I think it would be better to use .json so that the response renders as JSON, like this:

res.status(200).json(products)

Shreyas Pahune • Sep 26 '21

Thanks for sharing… I didn’t know this!!

Roland • Sep 26 '21

you're welcome! Will you update the article?

It's shown here in the docs: expressjs.com/en/api.html#res.json

Shreyas Pahune • Sep 27 '21

Yup I'll surely add this in it

Roland • Sep 27 '21

Cool :)

Liyas Thomas • Sep 25 '21

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GitHub:

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Shreyas Pahune • Sep 25 '21

Hey I have used this!! Have you guys tied up with Aviyel?

Liyas Thomas • Sep 25 '21

Yes we did. They're doing an amazing job on growing OSS ❤️💯.

Thomas Bnt • Sep 24 '21

Simple, good post 👍🏼

Hrushikesh Kokardekar • Sep 24 '21

Good Work Shreyas and I find this very informative

Shreyas Pahune • Sep 24 '21

Thanks bro

Adam Gonzales • Apr 12 '22

When I query the endpoint (random-quote-generator-api.adamgon...) using fetch locally I get an cors error and then if I use mode 'no-cors', I get an opaque response. Is there any way around this? I've been trying to figure this out for several hours.

YuvaRaj Raghunapu • Sep 25 '21

Thanks for sharing

johntarus • Sep 25 '21

Short and precise!

disjohndoe • Sep 25 '21

Very clean and simple. Thank you.

Krish Savani • Sep 25 '21

Loved this one! Hoping to use my own API soon.

Shreyas Pahune • Sep 25 '21

That's awesome!

Lakira Minlaka • Sep 29 '21

great job👏🤟

Shreyas Pahune • Sep 29 '21

Thanks

Tanwi Kumari • Sep 24 '21

Very useful!!
Thanks for sharing :)

Barun Ghosh • Sep 25 '21

Friend... there is a little typo , 27 x 7, I think it should be 24 x 7

Shreyas Pahune • Sep 25 '21

Thanks a lot, I edited it.

Ahmedsouidi • Sep 25 '21

Thanks, very nice post.

Shreyas Pahune • Sep 25 '21

Thanks bro

Anurag Sharma • Sep 24 '21

Great work Shreyas , and it is so informative.

Shreyas Pahune • Sep 24 '21

Thanks bro, more informative blogs coming soon!

Marouen Helali • Sep 30 '21

Great article to quickly spin up an API to be able to focus more on devops afterwards like containerizing it, deploying it, and then scaling it.

Raqib Nur • Sep 27 '21

Thanks a lot very helpful article

Shubham Patil • Sep 27 '21

Sweet and simple Express. Awesome!

Shreyas Pahune • Sep 27 '21

Thanks 😁💯

Julia Jakobsen • Oct 13 '21

Hi! Maybe a stupid question, but where do i write the code from step 1? Do i need to create a file? What should the file-structure be? I don't understand :/

Shreyas Pahune • Oct 14 '21 • Edited

Hey Julia, first of all no quesitons are stupid xD! And you just have to create one file having a .js extension.
Create a file let's say index.js and then write your code in it.