Using built-in JSON parser

GeorgeSapkin · GeorgeSapkin · commit 23f4c690aadf · 2018-03-11T14:45:51.000+01:00
diff --git a/week3/README.md b/week3/README.md
@@ -51,10 +51,20 @@ Documentation:
 
 ## Building a REST API for To-Dos
 
+Videos:
+
+[What is REST?](http://www.restapitutorial.com/lessons/whatisrest.html)
+
+Documentation:
+
+[REST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer)
+
+[Learn REST: A RESTful Tutorial](http://www.restapitutorial.com/)
+
 ### To-Do API
 
-This week we are going to write an Express application using [body-parser](https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser)
-middleware that automatically parses JSON from request body.
+This week we are going to write an Express application with request body in JSON
+format.
 
 There are 4 [CRUD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create%2C_read%2C_update_and_delete)
 actions:
diff --git a/week3/lecture/package.json b/week3/lecture/package.json
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "hyf-node-week-3-todo",
-  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "version": "1.0.1",
   "description": "HackYourFuture Node.js Week 3 - To-Do App",
   "repository": "https://github.com/HackYourFuture/nodejs.git",
   "main": "src/index.js",
   "author": "George Sapkin",
   "license": "MIT",
   "dependencies": {
-    "body-parser": "^1.18.2",
     "express": "^4.16.2",
     "uuid": "^3.2.1"
   },
diff --git a/week3/lecture/src/index.js b/week3/lecture/src/index.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
-const Express    = require('express');
+const Express = require('express');
 
 // import our CRUD actions
 const {
@@ -19,9 +18,10 @@ const TODO_SLUG = 'todos';
 
 const todo = new Todo(FILENAME);
 
-const app = Express();
+const app = new Express();
 
-app.use(bodyParser.json());
+// Use built-in JSON middleware to automatically parse JSON
+app.use(Express.json());
 
 app.post(`/${TODO_SLUG}`,       createTodo.bind(null, todo));
 app.get(`/${TODO_SLUG}`,        readTodos.bind(null, todo));
diff --git a/week3/lecture/yarn.lock b/week3/lecture/yarn.lock
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ balanced-match@^1.0.0:
   version "1.0.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/balanced-match/-/balanced-match-1.0.0.tgz#89b4d199ab2bee49de164ea02b89ce462d71b767"
 
-body-parser@1.18.2, body-parser@^1.18.2:
+body-parser@1.18.2:
   version "1.18.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/body-parser/-/body-parser-1.18.2.tgz#87678a19d84b47d859b83199bd59bce222b10454"
   dependencies:
