REST

Implicit Routes

In Kretes, you can define implicit routes that are derived from the application features. These are called Resource routes and they can be configured in config/server/routes.ts under the Resources key.

Each resource expects a controller in the features/<feature name>/Controller directory. This controller consists of 1 to 5 actions that may be defined in separate files.

Let's say we have a Game feature. If we define a Game resource as described above, this configuration will implicitly generate the five following routes:

The action names create a CBFUD acronym, an extension of CRUD approach, where we explicitly differentiate between reading a single element and reading a potentially filtered collection of elements.

Actions are responsible to connect the information received from the incoming request to underlaying data in your application (i.e. fetching/saving/updating) in order to produce a corresponding view e.g. a HTML page or a JSON payload.