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Build Web APIs with Aqueduct #1

A couple of months ago I wrote a series of articles based on the Aqueduct framework for Dart. We developed a RESTful API serving up a list of reading materials from a PostgreSQL database.

In this series of videos, we will develop a RESTful Web API based on Aqueduct 3 for Dart 2. The API has changed since the written article, which has introduced breaking changes.


A brief overview of Aqueduct

Aqueduct is an open-source framework for creating and deploying RESTful Web APIs on the server. It borrows concepts from Express, Hapi and even .NET Web API, offering a point of entry if you’ve used any of those other frameworks.

Here are some of the features it has:

  1. Fluid, chainable routing. A functional style to composing your routes and its handler methods
  2. A CLI tool. This allows you to scaffold your next project by issuing straightforward commands
  3. Multi-threading out of the box. Spins up multiple instances of your application via Dart’s “isolates”, scaling across all CPU cores on the server.
  4. Has an inbuilt ORM. A must-have if you work with relational databases! Also supports database migration.
  5. Has an integrated testing library. Because you need to test all the things! Plays well with tools like TravisCI.

Learn more on their website.

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Jermaine Oppong

Hello 👋, I show programmers how to build full-stack web applications with the Dart SDK. I am passionate about teaching others, having received tremendous support on sites like dev.to and medium.com for my articles covering various aspects of the Dart language and ecosystem.

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