Building APIs - Part 1

Presented October 15th, 2020 for the Online ColdFusion Meetup.

Recording: Will be updated when released.

Slides: /workbench/2020-OnlineCFMeetup - APIs - Part 1.pdf

Setup

Create a database called Soapbox on your MySQL server, and load the data from /workbench/20201014_soapbox.sql file.

Copy the .env.example file into a .env file, and update the environment variables to match your systems' server credentials etc.

Install CommandBox

From the commandbox command line in this folder, type box install to install the dot env and cfconfig system modules.

Next, type start to start the commandbox server

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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api		api
cfcs		cfcs
includes/css		includes/css
rants		rants
users		users
workbench		workbench
.cfconfig.json		.cfconfig.json
.env.example		.env.example
.gitignore		.gitignore
Application.cfc		Application.cfc
_rant.cfm		_rant.cfm
act_login.cfm		act_login.cfm
box.json		box.json
inc_footer.cfm		inc_footer.cfm
inc_header.cfm		inc_header.cfm
index.cfm		index.cfm
login.cfm		login.cfm
logout.cfm		logout.cfm
readme.md		readme.md
server.json		server.json