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How To Create Dummy APIs

The document outlines steps to create a dummy API using NodeJS and json-server by installing NodeJS and json-server, creating a students.json file with sample data, and running json-server to make the API available at a local URL.

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How To Create Dummy APIs

The document outlines steps to create a dummy API using NodeJS and json-server by installing NodeJS and json-server, creating a students.json file with sample data, and running json-server to make the API available at a local URL.

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How to create dummy API's

1) Install NodeJS
Download link: https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Set Environment variable:

2) Check node & npm versions ( npm comes along with node.js)

3) install json-server
npm install -g json-server
Ignore this

4) create students.json file with the following data


{
"students": [
{
"id": 1,
"name": "John",
"location": "india",
"phone": "1234567890",
"courses": [
"Java",
"Selenium"
]
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Kim",
"location": "US",
"phone": "98876543213",
"courses": [
"Python",
"Appium"
]
},
{
"id": 3,
"name": "Smith",
"location": "Canada",
"phone": "165498765",
"courses": [
"C#",
"RestAPI"
]
}
]
}
5) Run the below command to make your API's up and running.

json-server --watch students.json

http://localhost:3000/students

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