In this chapter, we will go through the process of developing a custom route with two endpoints that will display information regarding products on an e-commerce website. Of course, the e-commerce part is just an example, and you can very well use this model to display posts on a blog, photos from a portfolio site, and so on.
REST API, being in its second version, is split into two parts: the infrastructure for setting up RESTful APIs and a part covering the default routes that would work as fantastic examples that can guide you through creating your very own routes. The system used for adding these routes and endpoints is amazingly well set.
In this chapter, we will be exposing the specific custom fields that will be used on the site. In this implementation, a second route called docs will be incorporated, which will be set around a custom post type that we are using for documentation purposes. We want to make this as clear and thorough as possible, which is why our endpoints and...