The idea this week is to build a RESTful api. This keeps your endpoint URIs simple by making use the the 'verbs' the http methods (GET,POST,PUT,DELETE) provide.
For enlightenment and examples, please read this excellent articlee.
One thing worth noting, (and covered in the article above), is how to work around the inability of plain html to issue PUT and DELETE requests. If you want to do a 'real' rest api, js/jQuery will let you issue PUT/DELETE requests.
One way of doing this is to define in the API the actual call you want to use to replace POST:
POST: /user/1?method=put POST: /user/1?method=delete The API can then convert the POST call into the appropriate method, and funnel it into the same route.
See server.js for some fictional routes describing a basic blog.
Nelson's excellent resource should get you up and running.
For further information see the API docs, and the hapi tutorials.
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