RESTful TodoMVC Service Application

Project Intention

This serves as a simple RESTful service for the other TodoMVC example applications.

Project Progress

[NOTE: Each linked commit below is be a working version of the application. Earlier versions, may have some bugs. Listed from latest to oldest.]

• Feature: Add multi-user capability
• Feature: Handle bulk updates more elequently with request body detection, Array versus Object
• Feature: Convert from URL Query based update to request body update and Joi schema validation
• Tech: Clean up unneeded code and libraries, and reorganize files (HEAD)
• Tech: Roughly convert Universal TodoMVC application to solely a RESTful service.

Up and Running

npm install
npm run build
npm start

Visit localhost:3000 in your browser.

What's a RESTful service application?

[Coming soon ...]

Here's the full tech-stack that we've chosen to execute this idea:

• TypeScript: used for transpiling (JSX and ES6) and module bundling for universal module design
• Rx.js: this is a powerful async library that uses Reactive Functional Programming at its core
• Express: our lightweight, un-opinionated, server framework
• PouchDB: quick data persistence solution

A bit on the top 4:

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source.

TypeScript - typescriptlang.org

RxJS (Reactive Extensions Library for JavaScript) is a library for reactive programming using Observables, to make it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code.

RxJS - https://rxjs.dev/

Learning TypeScript

The TypeScript website is a great resource for getting started.

Here are some links you may find helpful:

• Tutorial
• Code Playground
• Documentation
• Applications built with TypeScript
• Blog
• Source Code

Articles and guides from the community:

• Thoughts on TypeScript
• ScreenCast - Why I Like TypeScript

Get help from other TypeScript users:

• TypeScript on StackOverflow
• Forums
• TypeScript on Twitter

If you have other helpful links to share, or find any of the links above no longer work, please let us know.

Learning Express

Express has been around for a very long time, so documentation is ubiquitous. But, if you need a reference, the framework's main site is the place to go: http://expressjs.com/.

Learning Redux

Redux has some great documentation at their main site here: http://redux.js.org/.

Here are some links you may find helpful:

• Egghead.io video tutorials
• Original TodoMVC from which this was made

Learning RxJS (RFP)

There's a lot of information out there about Reactive Functional Programming (RFP), much of which can get really academic. What I like to do when teaching RFP is start with something almost any JS dev is going to be familiar with using – arrays and array methods.

Here are some links that discuss the foundations:

• 2 minute introduction to Rx
• Asynchronous Programming: The End of The Loop
• RxJS Beyond the Basics: Creating Observables from scratch
• Save time avoiding common mistakes using RxJS

Here is the more academic stuff:

• The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

There's even a whole online "manual": Learn RxJS