How can I create a web service endpoint for a locally served JSON file

Question

I\'m working through the React.js tutorial found here: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html

When adding comments to the page using AJAX and the post me

Answer 1

If you look at reactjs/react-tutorial on github, there's an example server using node.js:

git clone git@github.com:reactjs/react-tutorial.git && cd react-tutorial
npm install
node server.js

Here's the server.js file.

var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var app = express();

var comments = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('_comments.json'));

app.use('/', express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));

app.get('/comments.json', function(req, res) {
  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
  res.send(JSON.stringify(comments));
});

app.post('/comments.json', function(req, res) {
  comments.push(req.body);
  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
  res.send(JSON.stringify(comments));
});

app.listen(3000);

console.log('Server started: http://localhost:3000/');

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