How to add my own API?

[Ape]

I want to add my own custom route that can take POST requests and write my own logic to provide a dynamic response.

I tried nodebb-plugin-custom-pages, but seems like that only does a GET request and only way to add content there is by ACP->/extend/widgets.

Im not advanced enough to write my own plug ins , is there a simpler way to achieve what I need?

[julian]

@ape nope, unfortunately not. You'll have to create a plugin and attach a listener to static:api.routes.

Check out the quickstart plugin, it has example logic for this hook.

[Ape]

@julian Thanks for the reference.

I loaded the Quickstart plugin and followed the example.
Added my route but I’m still getting “not found” when I go to http://localhost:4567/test321.

plugin.addRoutes = async ({ router, middleware, helpers }) => {
	function render(req, res, next) {
	  helpers.formatApiResponse(200, res);
	  //  res.send('Test') // tried this also
	};
	router.get('/test321', render);
	router.get('/quickstart/:param1', middleware.authenticate, (req, res) => {
		helpers.formatApiResponse(200, res, {
			foobar: req.params.param1,
		});
	});
};

[dogs]

@ape Take a look at my yesterday's topic.

Had similar problems, maybe the topic helps you.

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15489/custom-route-in-plugin-drops-404-error-on-not-defined-client-script

routeHelpers.setupPageRoute(router, '/discord/topic/', middleware, [(req, res, next) => {
		winston.info(`[plugins/discord-topic] In middleware. This argument can be either a single middleware or an array of middlewares`);
		setImmediate(next);
	}], (req, res) => {
		winston.info(`[plugins/discord-topic] Navigated to ${nconf.get('relative_path')}/discord-topic`);
		render(req, res);	// replace this with res.render('templateName');
	});

[julian]

@ape if you're using that hook, the routes are mounted to /api/v3, so the definition you provided would end up being accessible at /api/v3/test123