API overview

What you will learn in this chapter

Your project now fully works with tasks. You can add, update, and delete tasks. However, the tasks are stored in memory in the TaskService service.

In a real-world scenario, the tasks would be stored in a database and the application would consume an API to interact with the database. This new chapter will focus on updating the application to consume an API server.

Json-server

To focus on the Angular part of the application, we will use json-server to create a simple API server. It’ll allow us to create, read, update and delete tasks.

As promoted on the json-server GitHub repository:

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Technical details

1. We will create a simple API server with json-server.
2. We will consume the API in an Angular application.