Overview After successfully wiring up the database, you will create a second application, app_api, to separate the RESTful endpoints. This approach is known as Separation of Concerns, which amounts to...

Overview

After successfully wiring up the database, you will create a second

application, app_api, to separate the RESTful endpoints. This approach

is known as
Separation of Concerns,

which amounts to separating an application into logical layers or

segments to reduce complexity, minimize the scope and effort of future

changes, and reduce the chance of defects going undetected. This

refactoring allows for three different clients—Angular.js, Express

backend, and any external callers (applications)—to use the API when

integrating Angular into your application.

In this assignment, you will ensure the database and API are wired to

the frontend and complete testing to check routes using the methods

FIND to locate items in a table and GET to retrieve a file.

Prompt

Refactor the database access code from being embedded within the

backend website logic to a separate top-level site accessed at the

endpoint “/API”. Follow the instructions in the
RESTful API Architecture
section of the
CS 465 Full Stack Guide
and perform the following:

• 
  Establish Routes:
  Establish routes for the API
  
  endpoints. Be sure to standardize naming conventions for routes and
  
  parameters to return specific trips.


• 
  MVC and REST API:
  Refactor the MVC app server controller model code for use with the app API REST endpoints using Mongoose.


• 
  Testing:
  Test the RESTful API application using Postman.
  
  
  
  
  • Check the routes and retrieval logic of specific product requests using the Mongoose functionality FIND method.
  
  
  • Verify that errors are handled correctly by returning HTTP status codes.
  
  
  • Verify that JSON data for a requested individual trip and a collection of all trips are returned.
  
  
  
  
  
  

Guidelines for Submission

After completing your work for this assignment, submit the updated

travlr.zip zipped file folder, which includes the trips.json file.