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Setting Up a Backend

Setting Up a Backend

Learn how to implement a fake server using the Fake Store API and build a CRUD Angular application.

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A web CRUD application usually connects to a server and uses an HTTP backend API to perform operations on data. It fetches existing data, updates it, creates new data, or deletes it. In a real-world scenario, we will most likely interact with a real backend API service through HTTP. There are cases, though, where we do not have access to a real backend API:

  • We may work remotely, and the server is only accessible through a VPN connection to which we do not have access.

  • We want to set up a quick prototype for demo purposes.

  • Available HTTP endpoints are not yet ready for consumption from the backend development team, a common problem when working in a large team of different types of developers.

To overcome all the previous obstacles during development, we can use a fake ...