This microservice will receive a city and state and return 10 random restaurants located in that city and state as an array of stringified JSON objects.
The application was created using Express Application Generator
bin/www contains the port the service runs on
app.js contains the routes and uses cors to run locally
routes/locator.js contains the handling for requests
.env add to route folder with API_KEY variable for use with RapidAPI
It uses package.json defines run commands
npm install
npm start
The REST API to the example app is described below. Use .env file to store API_KEY
GET /locator?state={IA}&city={Des Moines}
await fetch('http://localhost:9000/locator?state=IA&city=Des Moines')
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 24 July 2022 12:36:30 GMT
Status: 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 2
[ { "id": 19882607, "restaurantName": "Clyde's Fine Diner", "cuisineType": "American", "phoneNo": "+1 515-243-3686", "website": "http://www.clydesfinediner.com/" }, { "id": 836118, "restaurantName": "Dolly Madison", "cuisineType": "Restaurant", "phoneNo": "+1 515-265-6426", "website": "" }, { "id": 2248841, "restaurantName": "Pueblo Viejo", "cuisineType": "Mexican", "phoneNo": "+1 515-265-1720", "website": "http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pueblo-Viejo/118075724878011" }, { "id": 10753171, "restaurantName": "Paul Revere's Pizza", "cuisineType": "Restaurant", "phoneNo": "+1 515-244-9256", "website": "https://www.paulreverespizzadm.com/" }, { "id": 12351084, "restaurantName": "Harbinger", "cuisineType": "Asian,American", "phoneNo": "+1 515-244-1314", "website": "http://Harbingerdsm.com" }, { "id": 14982130, "restaurantName": "Players", "cuisineType": "American", "phoneNo": "+1 515-274-8639", "website": "https://www.facebook.com/Players-Sports-Bar-Grill-124322960959919/" }, { "id": 12414118, "restaurantName": "Kathmandu Restaurant", "cuisineType": "Indian,Nepali", "phoneNo": "+1 515-255-1270", "website": "http://www.kathmanduiowa.com/" }, { "id": 21267600, "restaurantName": "Casey's", "cuisineType": "Restaurant", "phoneNo": "+1 515-244-4666", "website": "https://www.caseys.com/general-store/ia-desmoines/4331-park-ave/2322" }, { "id": 15861167, "restaurantName": "Dairy Queen (Treat)", "cuisineType": "Restaurant", "phoneNo": "+1 515-278-1847", "website": "https://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/Locator/Detail/" }, { "id": 5013065, "restaurantName": "Beer Can Alley", "cuisineType": "Restaurant", "phoneNo": "+1 515-554-2606", "website": "http://www.beercanalley.com/" } ]