rpsapi Demo (Backend) App from the Virtual Classroom - not serving a site

[Doug]

Hi all,

In the interest of being thorough, I'm watching Chapter 2: Getting Started, Video #3: Running the API and demo application. I've cloned the https://github.com/telerik/rpsapi.git repository to a local folder, run npm install, and then run npm run dev.

When I attempt to run the app on http://localhost:8080, I don't get a site - even though the ts-node-dev server software appears to be running.

Attempts to make Postman GET requests of http://localhost:8080 yield 404 errors.

What am I doing wrong?

[Vessy]

Hello, Doug,

The listed steps are proper and it does not seem that you d anything wrong, but it could be rather some local specific. Basically, the most important part of the rsapi repo is to run the development server, so if it is running at your end you can just continue with the rpstrackerreact that contains the actual application used in the course that only consumes the data returned by the `rsapi`:

• https://github.com/telerik/rpstrackerreact

Going through the steps below should allow you to run the prepared sample application successfully:

1. Clone https://github.com/telerik/rpsapi
    - run `npm install`
    - run `npm run dev`
2. Clone https://github.com/telerik/rpstrackerreact
    - run `npm install`
    - run `npm start`
    - open http://localhost:3000/ 

Please, go through them and let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Vessy
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[Doug]

@Vessy I did a few updates to some dependencies, and then it worked out.

[Vessy]

Thanks a lot for the follow-up, Doug! I am glad to know that you are now able to continue the course smoothly :)