RESTed Resources

RESTed Resources is a client-side REST-based API layer for your resources. Conceptually similar to ngResource, it handles http requests and URL building to give you simple, consistent logic.

Resources automatically generate URLs based on their hierarchy. Requests are managed by superagent and results/errors are handled via Promises.

Installation

• npm install rested-resources --save
• or for yarn users: yarn add rested-resources

Usage

While RESTed Resources works as a client-side library, it's built as an NPM module with the assumption you're using webpack or a related library to compile your application.

Examples below are written with some ES6, which will require babel to transpile.

Import the resource classes:

import { IdentifiedResource, ResultsResource } from 'resource';

While you can export resource classes directly, you'll likely want to use a factory to help setup relationships.

-- student.js
export default class Student extends IdentifiedResource {}
 
-- students.js
export default class Students extends ResultsResource {}
 
-- course.js:
import Student from './student';
import Students from './students';
 
class Course extends IdentifiedResource {}
 
export function(data) {
    let resource = new Course(data);
 
    resource.nest(Student);
    resource.nest(Students);
 
    return resource;
}

You now have everything needed to interact with these resources.

Querying for all students in a course:

var course = new Course({ courseId: 'history-101' });
 
// performs: GET /courses/history-101/students
course.students.query().then((results) => {
    // results will be the resulting JSON
});

Query for a specific student's course data:

var course = new Course({ courseId: 'history-101' });
var student = new course.Student({ studentId: 1234 });
 
// performs: GET /courses/history-101/students/1234
student.get().then((result) => {
    // result will be the resulting JSON
});

Create a new student record:

var student = new Student({ name: 'Kermit' });
 
// performs: POST /students
student.save().then((result) => {});