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RESTful API can be developed on our local machines. Github would be used as a source control tool in our project, The reason for choosing Github as our source control tool because it is a common tool used in industry and it also provides all basic functions, we need to manage our project.
Different children branches are required for each team member to make sure the project is easy-manageable. After specific features are done by team members, they can push to their own branch and wait for other members’ code check. Finally, merging to the main branch by pulling request. It is an agile methodology for a team project.
And our data source is from http://outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com/ , we would use Puppeteer to scrape data we want. And store that JSON format data in MongoDB database. The request to database would be made when clients are calling API. And web server then sends back responses to clients. We would develop RESTful API to let clients get information they need. There are four HTTP methods we need to design for web service: GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.
Heroku is the cloud platform we will use to host API for application deployment, because it is easier to deploy small-size API for one project, Heroku also meets low computational demands and much more customer-oriented. So that’s why we use Heroku.
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