APIs are commonly a pain to build - there's all kinds of moving pieces: routing, data parsing, serialization, database interactions, etc. For years I've struggled with writing web APIs in Node.js - there's just so much complexity required in an API boilerplate. That's why I wrote Simple API. Simple API is an incredibly simple module for writing web-based APIs in Node.js
I often hear people say that they've written a library that makes something "simple", but in reality they've just made it a different kind of complex. I'm going to prove that's not the case with Simple API. This tutorial is going to teach you to write an API for a ToDo list, where the entire project is less than 300 lines of code. That's the entire project - the API related files are less than 200 lines of code.
*The examples will all be written in CoffeeScript, bu