Web Servers and APIs using C++

Learn how to build data-driven websites and make RESTful API calls using C++.

Introduction

• Why use C++ to make a website?
• What you should know

1. Installing Our Tools

• Installing Docker
• Installing Atom
• Creating a Dockerfile
• Running a Dockerfile
• Adding a volume
• Building Crow
• Serving the example
• Challenge: Modify the example page
• Solution: Modify the example page

2. Deploying to Heroku

• Creating a Heroku account
• Installing the Heroku CLI
• Deploying our container to Heroku
• Saving our container to Docker Hub

3. Building Websites

• Creating HTML pages
• Serving HTML pages
• Serving static content
• Challenge: Create a new webpage
• Solution: Create a new webpage

4. Data Access

• Creating an mLab account
• Uploading JSON data
• Adding the MongoDB C++ drivers
• Querying Mongo data
• Adding dynamic data to a page
• Challenge: Create a webpage with data
• Solution: Create a webpage with data

5. RESTful APIs

• Creating an endpoint
• Parsing the path
• Reading the query string
• Converting to JSON data
• Challenge: Create an endpoint
• Solution: Create an endpoint

6. WebSockets and Crow

• Reviewing the JavaScript client code
• Creating the C++ server code
• Running WebSocket on Heroku

Conclusion

• Next steps