How to make your own API

I hope you know what an API is. If not, then API is Application Programming Interface used by the client-side server to send a request and get a response from server side server

Recipe :

Open your text editor (VS Code or Atom) and open a new folder.
Add an index.js file and a JSON file. I will be making a movies API so I will be making a file named movies.json.
In the terminal which has been opened in the code editor, install these packages via npm or yarn, I will be using npm ( I hope you have installed npm, if not refer to this link npmjs.com/package/download ).
```
 npm init
 npm install express
```

In the movies.json file, add the movie titles you want to include for your API. If you don't know what JSON is refer to this w3schools.com/js/js_json_intro.asp

 [
     {
         "id":1,
         "movies":"Pathaan"
     },
     {
         "id":2,
         "movies":"KGF"
     },
     {
         "id":3,
         "movies":"RRR"
     },
     {
         "id":4,
         "movies":"Avengers"
     },
     {
         "id":5,
         "movies":"Tiger Zinda Hai"
     },
     {
         "id":6,
         "movies":"Kantara"
     },
     {
         "id":7,
         "movies":"Interstellar"
     }
 ]

In the index.js file add this code

 const express = require('express')
 const app = express()
 const port = 3000
 const fs = require('fs')
 app.get('/', (req, res) => {
     res.end('Hello World!');
 });
 app.get("/list_movies", (req, res) => {
     fs.readFile(__dirname + '/' + 'movies.json', (err, data) => {
         res.end(data);
     });
 });
 app.listen(port, () => {
     console.log(`app listening at http://localhost:${port}`)
 });

Now if you run the local host with the extension of the /list_movies [ http://localhost:3000/list_movies ]

Similarly, if you run the server link in Postman you will get a status code of 200 OK

Congratulations, you have made your own API! Voila

How to make your own API

Basic API Development

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