- Install httpie
- Install node.js
- Paste those files into some folder
- Install CoffeeScript into node with
npm install coffee
- Run the server
coffee server.coffee
With httpie:
http localhost:3000/authors
: Will give an empty listhttp POST localhost:3000/authors name=Shakespeare
: Will create an author and will return it in JSONhttp localhost:3000/authors
: again, this will return a list containing "Shakespeare" as an authorhttp localhost:3000/authors/<_id>
: Replace<_id>
with the long alphanumerical"_id"
in the previous request, will return the record for Shakespeare.
Voilá