This is a RESTFul API developed using LoopBack framework for an existing SOAP service.

LoopBack is a highly extensible, open-source Node.js framework developed by developers which enables developers to quickly create APIs and microservices. It also provide many connectors out-of-the-box for SOAP, REST, Databases, etc.

I have never used LoopBack framework or the languages (TypeScripts, Node.js) earlier. Therefore, I decided to use this as an oppertunity to learn something new over some other known frameworks and languages which I'm comfortable with.

Therefore, I decided to try out the tutorials first after finish reading all the key concepts and features of the LoopBack framework. it really help me in quickly troubleshoot issues.

The main issues I faced was, Once some of the recent code changes were not reflected in runtime. It wasn't fixed even after clean build as well. Finally I had to delete "dist" folder and rebuild to fix this issue.

1. Clone the global weather repo here

2. Run following command to run global weather SOAP service locally.

   npm install
   npm build
   npm start
   

3. Clone weather REST API service repo here

4. Run following command to run it locally.

   npm install
   npm build
   npm start
   

   Alternatively you can choose to run in Docker as well.

   docker build -t weather .
   docker run -p 3000:3000 -d weather
   
   

5. RESTFul Service can be accessed from http://localhost:3000/ in the browser which will provide Swagger Open API documentation.

6. Services can be run as follows. http://localhost:3000/weather?CityName=MEL&CountryName=AU http://localhost:3000/weather/cities/AU