Open Record Step 7: Serve Your Own

Expose your collected data as a small JSON API. One endpoint listing records with pagination, one returning a single record by id, and a consistent JSON error shape with correct status codes. Then write its documentation covering the five things, with a copy-pasteable curl command that works. Finally, hand the documentation to somebody else and ask them to fetch every record without asking you a question. Whatever they have to ask is what the documentation is missing.

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Your turn → Work through it step by step. This is a piece of the course project, not a throwaway exercise.

Built it in both languages?

Mark it done once your Python and JavaScript versions both run correctly. Honesty here is what makes the dashboard useful to you.

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