We are building a CRUD API. CRUD stands for Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete. If you think about it, this is what most applications do:

✨ Create some “resources” 🐕 Retrieve them (GET them) 📨 Update them 🗑️ Delete them

🎯 Goal

Our API will manage movie data. It will:

✨ Create a new movie, 🐕 Retrieve a list of movies or a single movie 📨 Update a movie

We will build this endpoint:

1. PUT /movies/:movieId should update a movie (that matches the passed movieId)

👉 You should already have a project using the Node-Starter-Kit. If not, do last week’s prep before you go on.

PUT /movies/:movieId should update a movie (that matches the passed movieId)

This means that PUT /movies/2 should update an movie with the id 2 and return 200 with JSON { success: true } to the user.

The code should look something like this:

app.put("/movies/:movieID", (req, res) => {
  console.log("PUT /movies route");
});

Remember, you have got to update the movie, not add it to the list.

Test that your API works by updating one of the movies.

CHALLENGE 1:

Return the old version of the object you updated as well as the new value in the response

CHALLENGE 2:

Validate the request body to make sure the ID can’t be updated and that users can’t add additional fields

CHALLENGE 3:

Persist your changes to file so that you are able to return your updated values even after you restart the server

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