You cannot select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
41 lines
1.4 KiB
Markdown
41 lines
1.4 KiB
Markdown
2 years ago
|
---
|
||
|
|
title: SI16 API node.js + express prototype
|
||
|
|
description: Test for an API-based special issue
|
||
|
|
date: 14/11/2021
|
||
|
|
git:
|
||
|
|
categories:
|
||
|
|
- Web
|
||
|
|
- API
|
||
|
|
- REST
|
||
|
|
- SI16
|
||
|
|
---
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Test for an API-based special issue
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
- The backend is developed with node.js and express
|
||
|
|
- Each URL is mapped to a python script. The argument are passed to the script, processed and then returned as JSON
|
||
|
|
- We start with 2 functions: 1. a find and replace and 2. a shout
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
(__update:__ hei this is not active anymore! [but we really did an API at the end!](issue.xpub.nl/16) aha!)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Wait what why an API
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
This is to show what an API could be in relation to the exercises we usually do during the prototyping class.
|
||
|
|
It is a way to render public a piece of work that usually stays behind several layers of accessibility.
|
||
|
|
The idea of the special issue as an API could be a curated collection of what we are doing since september within a critical context. 🤯
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
### Find and Replace
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Find a target string in a text and replace it with the given replacement. The parameters are three.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
- `text` the text in which perform the research
|
||
|
|
- `target` the string we are searching for
|
||
|
|
- `replacement` the string we want to insert in place of the target
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The endpoint is:
|
||
|
|
`https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/cat-api/replace?text={text}&target={target}&replacement={replacement}`
|