A simple json REST server that exposes all json files contained in a directory tree.
npm install -g json-rest-server
Create a directory tree with sub directories and valid .json files like this:
myapi
├── blog/
│ ├── posts/
│ │ ├── 1.json
│ │ ├── 1
│ │ │ ├── comments/
│ │ │ │ ├── 1.json
│ │ ├── 2.json
│ │ ├── 3.json
├── app/
│ ├── users.json
Start your server
$ json-rest-server myapi -P 3000 -CNow if you go to http://localhost:3000/blog/posts/1, you'll get the content of 1.json inside posts
But if you go to http://localhost:3000/blog/posts/1/comments, you'll get an array with the content of all json files that are in the comments folder
Set a different port to the default 3000
$ json-rest-server myapi -P 3001Enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), default is disabled
$ json-rest-server myapi -CLike REST, you can have GET and POST on folders and GET, PUT and DELETE on json files. Based on previous example, you can have
GET /blog/posts -> ARRAY of json files conteined in myapi/blog/posts
GET /blog/posts/1 -> JSON content of myapi/blog/posts/1.json
GET /blog/posts/1/comments -> ARRAY of json files conteined in myapi/blog/posts/1/comments
POST /blog/posts -> CREATE a new json file in myapi/blog/posts
PUT /blog/posts/1 -> UPDATE content of myapi/blog/posts/1.json
PATCH /blog/posts/1 -> UPDATE content of myapi/blog/posts/1.json merging with existing content
DELETE /blog/posts/1 -> DELETE file myapi/blog/posts/1.json
It's an alternative to npm json-server