Writing custom API endpoints

Creating our own API endpoints is just as easy as writing another URL pattern. This section will teach us how to write our own API endpoints and practice sending preformatted HTML back to the client. You do not need to create all custom API endpoints to return preformatted HTML but we will practice doing that. Preformatting HTML only works well if the app communicating with your API does not need to restructure or restyle the HTML in any way after it has been received. This means the server/developer needs to know exactly how the client will use the data that it receives. No more JavaScript will be needed other than what was already written in the $gotoSPA_Page() function of the previous exercise. We will reuse that same function and just alter one or two things before we move forward. We will create a new view class and add permission logic to secure that endpoint from unwanted users accessing the API.

Let’s begin working on this exercise in...