Cowboy REST Demo

A minimal Erlang project demonstrating a clean REST API built with Cowboy. This repository provides a simple users API with standard CRUD operations and a lightweight frontend to interact with it.

Screenshots

Users Table

Edit User

Empty Table

Features

• Users API

  • GET /api/v1/users — list all users
  • GET /api/v1/users/:id — get a single user
  • POST /api/v1/users — create a new user
  • PATCH /api/v1/users/:id — update an existing user
  • DELETE /api/v1/users/:id — delete a user

• Frontend

  • Table view of all users
  • Detailed view for each user
  • Inline edit and delete actions
  • Minimal, modern design using vanilla HTML/CSS/JS

• Error Handling

  • 404 Not Found page with JSON response

Tech Stack

• Erlang
• Cowboy (HTTP server)
• EUnit for unit tests
• PostgreSQL as database

How to Run

make deps
make compile
make tests

make run-local

Frontend is served statically via Cowboy. Navigate to /#/users to view users.

Built with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. Powered by Cowboy.