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This server provides support for the Front-End Frameworks coding labs. It bothserves the app files and provides a REST interface for reading and storing data.

Thebinaries directory contains builds for Windows, Mac OS X("darwin"), and Linux. Run the appropriateserver program to start the server,supplying the--www= flag to point to your front-end code (e.g. on Mac OS X use./server_darwin_amd64 --www=../../FEF-UdaciMeals-Backbone)

Use the--log flag to see all of the incoming and outgoing trafficfrom the server.

The server serves web files and provides a REST API. The--wwwflagspecifies the directory to be served as/ (e.g../main --www=../web-filesserves../web-files/index.html as/index.html)

The server implements a REST API at/api/items:

• GET /api/items (no trailing slash) returns an object with a JSON array of menu items
• PUT /api/items is disallowed (you cannot put the whole array at once)
• GET /api/items/[id] (e.g.GET /api/items/strawberry-shortcake) gets themenu item with the specified ID and returns it as JSON
• PUT /api/items/[:id] takes a menu item (JSON format, in the body) andupdates the existing item if the ID exists or appends a new one if the IDdoesn't exist yet

All of the data is stored in JSON format in the_data directory.menu.jsonis the storage file. (The file atserver/assets/menu.jsonprovides the starting values and is compiled into the server binary.)

If you want to modify the code or build for another platform:

1. Download and install the Go programming language
2. Download or clone this project
3. Change into theserver directory
4. Compile the server:go build
5. Run theserver program to start the server.

You can also use thecompile.sh script to cross-compile forWindows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

If you want to change the initial data file, install therice tool fromhttps://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice,editserver/assets/menu.json, and follow thedirections for usingembed-go before re-building the binary.