Install JSON Server

✔️

Add json-server

Install and configure json-server as a fake REST API server.

What is json-server?

json-server is a small package that helps you to create a REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds. It’s a full fake REST API with zero coding that allows you to create, read, update and delete tasks.

It won’t provide us a real API server, but it’s a great tool to focus on the Angular part of the application.

Let’s install it and create a fake database.

🎓 Instructions

Run the following command in a terminal to Install json-server.
Terminal window
```
npm install json-server
```

Create a db.json file at the project root and populate it with a list of tasks.

{
  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "First task",
      "description": "This is the first task",
      "createdAt": "2021-09-01T12:00:00"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "title": "Second task",
      "description": "This is the second task",
      "createdAt": "2021-09-01T12:00:00"
    }
  ]
}

Create a start-server script in your package.json file.

{
  "scripts": {
    "start-server": "json-server --watch db.json"
  }
}

Run the following command to start json-server.
Terminal window
```
npm run start-server
```
Open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/tasks.

✔️ What you learned

In this chapter, you learned how to add json-server and configure it to create a fake REST API server. It’ll be use in next chapters to create, read, update and delete tasks as if you were interacting with a real API server.