Server URL is hardcoded all over the place

[dimitrovs]

If you look at: signup.ts, login.ts, home.ts you see the API URL is hardcoded everywhere:

http://localhost:3001/users
http://localhost:3001/sessions/create
http://localhost:3001/api/random-quote
http://localhost:3001/api/protected/random-quote

You may argue that it doesn't matter, because it's just a "sample" app and users won't be deploying it anywhere, but the truth is hardcoding API URL like this is just bad design. You should have one variable defined in a common place with the API host then use relative paths everywhere else. Otherwise the incentive is too high for the novice user to just replace localhost:3001 with their domain and build a production app with this bad practice. In fact, there already is an issue asking how to do exactly that #52 .

[chenkie]

Hardcoding the URL isn't ideal and you're right, it's just a sample app which is why :)

Want to send a PR to centralize the URL?