Create an api endpoint for products

[rhgksrua]

We should create a mock api endpoint to serve our products.

Then we can request to a URL (i.e www.locahost.com/mockapi?search=laptop) and return a JSON with only the products that we searched for.

Features

• Receive GET request on /mockapi?search=laptop.
• Server loads products JSON and filters products based on user search term (?search=userSearchTerm).
• Return filtered products JSON.

Our api doesn't have to have all the features that a real world api would have. But it should be able to do a simple search of our mock products.

[JordyVlassembrouck]

Why not immediately call a real API, and stick with that one?

[rhgksrua]

I though we were using our own product list before using any real api. Also, which real api are you talking about?

[JordyVlassembrouck]

I agree on using static JSON files in the beginning to mock data, but building a working API to build our application against, that's one bridge too far (I think). We'll see what the others think.

[vinaypuppal]

I would also suggest we should mock data and test our application after that we can connect to an real API endpoint. For mocking test data we can use Faker module.

[arreche]

@vinaypuppal Thanks for your suggestion. I'll consider using Faker for other project but actually It looks that it doesn't provide any option to fake products.

[vinaypuppal]

@arreche Faker provides fake data in general form. You can use these from Faker module to generate fake product list depending what we need to show in UI

• Image
• Lorem
  • word
  • sentences / paragraphs
• etc...