Simple TODO API in Dart

A very simple TODO API in Dart based on the shelf package.

This project is ment to demonstrate how to create a simple REST API using Dart.

Download dependencies

As mentioned this project depends on the shelf package. To download the package and make it available to the project run:

dart pub get

Compile and run

Assuming the Dart SDK installed (instructions can be found here) compiling the SDK can be done using the following command from the root of the project:

dart compile exe bin/todo_dart

This will create a self-contained executable which can be executed by running to following command from the root of the project:

./bin/todo_dart.exe

Run a debug build

To run a debug build run the following command from the root of the project:

dart run bin/todo_dart.dart

Testing the API

If the server is running it will start listening on localhost at port 8080. To fetch a list of TODO items from the API using curl run:

curl http://localhost:8080/todos

To add an item to the TODO list using curl run:

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:8080/todo' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "id": 2,
  "is_checked": true,
  "value": "Put ice-cream in the freezer"
}'