Step 2 – create the skeleton of the Media Catalogue Microservice

The next step is to create the Media Catalogue Microservice Node.js and related libraries:

  1. Create a new folder with name media_catalogue_service and within the folder run:
      npm init

This will prompt the user to provide the following information:

    • Name: Leave the default media_catalogue_service and press Enter.
    • Version: Leave the default 1.0.0 and press Enter.
    • Description: Type The Media Catalogue Service is created for the MRA example use case that supports chapter 4 Building and running the Microservice of the book Implementing Oracle API Platform Cloud Service.
    • Entry point: Type server.js, which includes the main logic that is called to run the Node.js microservice.

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