In this chapter, we walked through building an editable products grid application. The application integrated with a server through the RESTful web services. The features of the application included displaying, deleting, adding, and updating products. The main focus of the chapter was learning how to perform CRUD operations using the RESTful web services.
We stared the chapter with a brief overview of the RESTful web services and the API calls the products grid server exposed. We then moved on to installing and running the server using Node.js before we started developing the application features.
The first feature of the products grid application was to retrieve the list of products from the server using an HTTP GET request and displaying the products in a grid. The second feature was about deleting a product. We used HTTP DELETE request to achieve this. The third feature was the ability to add a product. HTTP POST request was used to add a product. The last feature was the ability...