absima/selfWork_routing-localPortAPI

makes the data available on local port to route to a react app.

Creating and fetching from local api

Main steps involved

1. As a demo, I copied routing-Contentful repository setup and removed contentful dependency (except at the stage where I saved my object). To be able to save my data (that I want to make available on local port), I had to work on nodejs (outside the react environment). I prepared tryinToFetch.js file and run it on the terminal and saved my json file as continent.json

2. Set up the local server in index.js file. To be able to do that, I needed to do the following:

   1. I included the line "type": "module" within the package.json file-- this is to follow the current trend (eg. using import instead of require)
   2. in the same file, within "scripts" section, I added "start" : "node index.js"
   3. I installed express by running npm install express nodemon
   4. to be able to use nodemon, I included a line "source" : "nodemon index.js" /This will allow me to activate the server API by running npm run source or npm start

3. I lounched the react app on Chrome with a command npm run dev

4. I lounched the server with a command npm start

5. refresh chrome