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Application Server Groundwork

A REST API with login, background jobs and automated tests, fully documented so your web or mobile developers can start integrating straight away.

22 working days₹43,999 incl. GST7 deliverables
Overview

What this service covers

How easily your product can change later depends on the server code you write today. Our team writes a service built for the long run: tidy resource controllers, validation on every request, migrations that run cleanly on an empty database, background queues for slow tasks, and tests wherever they add real value. Every endpoint is written up in an API specification that tools can read, and the service runs on the relational database of your choice, so app developers always know exactly what a payload looks like.

Deliverables

What you receive

  • Up to 30 documented REST endpoints served by one server application
  • Token authentication with roles and a permission check on each action
  • Database structure, migration files and sample seed records for local development
  • Background and scheduled jobs for emails, exports and other slow tasks
  • API specification that tools can read, plus an interactive console to browse it
  • Automated tests covering login, validation and the key business flows
  • Deployment instructions and a full list of environment variables
How it runs

The work in 4 stages

  1. Stage 1: Contract first

    We model the business domain, settle the endpoint list and draft the API contract ahead of any code.

  2. Stage 2: Slice-by-slice build

    Each feature is built end to end with its tests written alongside.

  3. Stage 3: Parallel integration

    App developers on your side integrate with the staging server while we finish the remaining pieces.

  4. Stage 4: Hardening

    We check load, review error handling and rehearse the deployment.

Fit and inputs

Who it suits, and what we need from you

Ideal for

  • Mobile apps that have outgrown a spreadsheet posing as a backend
  • Teams replacing an old server codebase that everyone avoids touching
  • Products planning a second client app in the near future

What we need from you

  • A data model, or one hour with the person who knows the business rules
  • A chosen host and database engine, or a request for our advice
  • Representative sample records, the awkward edge cases among them

You share these through the brief on your order page after checkout.

Why it helps

What changes for your team

  • An agreed contract that lets client work start immediately
  • Test coverage that lets the next developer make changes with confidence
  • Slow work happens in background jobs, not while a request waits
Questions

Questions about this service

Our default is a mature, full-featured framework with plenty of developers available to hire in India. Where your developers already use another server-side stack, we build in theirs instead.

Yes. A version prefix is in place from the first release, so a breaking change never catches out a mobile app already in the stores.

Our team provisions the infrastructure and hands the credentials to you. Hosting after that is handled through our ongoing support plans.

This is a remote service: nothing is shipped physically, and the work is delivered into systems you control. See delivery and handover and refunds and cancellation for the full terms.

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