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nishantr
6,326 Pointswhat are the routes for my app?
I am writing a weather application using express and as we have /questions and /answers routes for this QA app, what are the routes i need to write for my weather app? my app takes the input from the user( the location which they want to display the weather) and it fetches the data from openweathermap.org to display the weather in my app.
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Donnie Reese
17,211 PointsNo problem! Let me know if you need any more help.
As a consideration, if you are just building a single web app, you will need to run one server for the frontend and one server for the API. If that's the case and you don't expect outside use, you might want to consider making a regular express server and not an api. It's very similar and they have great a great course for express apps.
nishantr
6,326 PointsThank you very much, Donnie. Can I have your e-mail ID, please?
nishantr
6,326 PointsAm i need to connect my app to database? since I am not storing any data and just retrieving the data from the openeweathermap.org.
Donnie Reese
17,211 PointsNo, you don't need a database unless there is data to be stored or retrieved. You could use the database as a way to store uses to watch for extreme access to your API if you intend to leave it open to the internet or store statistical data to return statistical data based on area and use, as an example.
nishantr
6,326 PointsThank you donnie
Donnie Reese
17,211 PointsDonnie Reese
17,211 PointsI just finished this course. If you are creating a weather API, are you planning on letting other people outside of your site use this API? If so, I would wait for them to release their next Node Express course this month that deals with securing express apps.
Have you written down or planned out the different descriptive tasks that an app might expect to make or request back?
For example: Get weather from a city
GET /weather/byCity/:cityName
Get conversational with yourself and figure out what the goal is, what type of questions your app might ask for and what they might expect back.
Good luck on your API!