Installing and running the sever

The first step before we start developing the user stories is to install and run the server. The server will expose the RESTful APIs for our products grid application. We will use Node.js as the server.

Note

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript-based platform for building network applications. You can learn about Node.js at https://nodejs.org/.

To install and run the server, perform the following steps:

  1. Download and install node.js from https://nodejs.org/.
  2. Create a folder for server module. Let's call it ProductsServer.
  3. Navigate to the ProductsServer folder and install the Restify module using npm.
    Installing and running the sever
  4. Download products-server.js ...

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