API

This section describes all the individual modules and APIs of Feathers. There are three main sections of the API:

Core: The Feathers core functionality that can be used on the server and the client
Server: Feathers server side modules used with Core when creating an API server in NodeJS
Client: Modules used on the client (NodeJS, browser or React Native) together with Core when connecting to a Feathers API server.

Here is an overview how the individual sections of the API documentation fit together:

Core

Feathers core functionality that works on the client and the server

Application - The main Feathers application API
Services - Service objects and their methods and Feathers specific functionality
Hooks - Pluggable middleware for service methods
Events - Events sent by Feathers service methods
Errors - A collection of error classes used throughout Feathers

Expose a Feathers application as an API server

Express - Feathers Express framework bindings, REST API provider and error middleware.
Socket.io - The Socket.io real-time transport provider
Primus - The Primus real-time transport provider
Configuration - A node-config wrapper to initialize configuration of a server side application.
Channels - Decide what events to send to connected real-time clients

More details on how to use Feathers on the client

Usage - Feathers client usage in Node, React Native and the browser (also with Webpack and Browserify)
REST - Feathers client and direct REST API server usage
Socket.io - Feathers client and direct Socket.io API server usage
Primus - Feathers client and direct Primus API server usage

Feathers authentication mechanism

Feathers common database adapter API and querying mechanism