Creating an API with Express

Who doesn't like a nice starship battle, like in Star Wars or Star Trek? I happen to be quite a fan of science fiction, so let's play along and construct a RESTful API using storage, routes, controllers, and models to keep track of our gameplay. While we'll be focusing on the backend of this application, we'll stand up a simple frontend for the population of data and testing.

You can find a work-in-progress example app at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-JavaScript-for-Python-Developers/tree/master/chapter-13/starship-app. Let's start there, and you can finish it using the following steps:

1. Clone the repository if you haven't already.
2. Navigate into the directory with cd starship-app and run npm install.
3. Start the project with npm start.
4. Open http://localhost:3000 in a browser. If you already have any projects running on port 3000, the start command may prompt you to use a different port. Here's our basic frontend...