Chapter 6. Auction Application

This chapter will focus on building an auction-like application that will rely on the previously built e-commerce application's API. It is going to be a small proof-of-concept application. The backend solution of our application is going to consume the backend API of our e-commerce application. I want the last chapter to be a playground for us, so we can go through some interesting technologies used in this module, and also have some fun with a smaller but interesting app.

Setting up the base app

We are going to start with our classic boilerplate for an Express application. Follow these steps to set up the base project:

  1. Clone the project from GitHub at https://github.com/robert52/express-api-starter.
  2. Rename your boilerplate ...

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