Open the shopping list application (the chapter6/shopping-list folder) and run npm install and npm run dev. It's nice and clean, but it still uses the hardcoded list of the shopping lists. It would be really nice if we were able to add new shopping lists, delete them, and store the information on updated shopping lists so that when we restart the application, the displayed information corresponds to the last we saw before restarting. In order to be able to do that, we will use the resource plugin, which allows us to easily create REST resources and call REST methods on them. Before starting, let's summarize everything that we need to do in order to achieve this:
- First of all, we need to have a simple server that contains some storage from where we can retrieve and where we can store our shopping lists. This server must provide the needed endpoints for all this functionality.
- After creating our server and all needed endpoints, we...