json-server makes it extremely easy to setup robust JSON apis to use for demos and proof of concepts. John walks you through the process of using pre-built json files for a server and how to generate larger datasets using lodash and faker.
Install:
npm install -g json-server
Create a json file:
{
"people": [
{
"id": 0,
"name": "John"
}
]
}
Run:
json-server db.json
It will run the localhost:3000:
It return the data:
[{"id":0,"name":"John"}]
or db:
{"people":[{"id":0,"name":"John"}]}
You also can do POST; DELETE; GET;
For example POST:
After I post twice, we got three results:
[{"id":0,"name":"John"},{"name":"Yuri","id":1},{"name":"Yuri","id":2}]
We can UPDATE the last one also:
Get more data to play with:
/**
* Created by Answer1215 on 1/13/2015.
*/
module.exports = function() {
var faker = require('faker');
var _ = require('lodash'); return {
people: _.times(100, function(n) {
return{
id: n,
name: faker.name.findName(),
avater: faker.internet.avatar()
}
})
}
}
Query: