The Rest Api

For this tutorial, we’ll use Express (Remult works with many JavaScript web frameworks including Express, Fastify, Next.js, Sveltekit, nuxt.js, Hapi, Hono, Nest, and Koa).

Open backend/index.ts and add the following lines to include the Task in the REST API:

import express from 'express'
import { remultExpress } from 'remult/remult-express'
import { Task } from '../shared/Task.js'

export const app = express()
export const api = remultExpress({
  entities: [Task],
})
app.use(api)

Code Explanation

• We import the necessary remultExpress module for integrating Remult with Express.
• We import the Task entity from the shared folder.
• We use the remultExpress function to set up the Remult REST API and register the Task entity in its entities array.
• Finally, we tell Express to use the API with app.use(api).

See that it works

Click on the Test the Api button in the preview window, you should see an empty JSON array in the result.

You can also open the network tab in the developer tools and see the requests that are being sent to the nodejs server