Let’s build an API with Koa — Part 2

The saga continues, this time with Andy Samberg.

Photo by Mesut Kaya on Unsplash

Front-matter

If you’re just joining us, you should go see the first part of this series.

Let’s build a REST API with Koa.js and test with Jest!

Or, if you don’t want to, then check out the repo for the last spot in that article here.

Intro

In this article, we are going to take a deep dive into Koa. I ended up spending a lot of time on how things work, as opposed to writing a lot of code, but I think it’s important to know how a tool works.

Enough said, let’s get to it.

Exploring Koa

Before we go to crazy, let’s get a better understanding of what Koa offers us when we make requests to it.

app.context