# Dapr state management (HTTP Client)

In this quickstart, you'll create a microservice to demonstrate Dapr's state management API. The service generates messages to store data in a state store. See [Why state management](#why-state-management) to understand when this pattern might be a good choice for your software architecture.

Visit [this](https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/building-blocks/state-management/) link for more information about Dapr and State Management.

> **Note:** This example leverages HTTP `requests` only.  If you are looking for the example using the Dapr Client SDK (recommended) [click here](../sdk/).

This quickstart includes one service: Node client service `order-processor`

This section shows how to run applications at once using [multi-app run template files](https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/local-development/multi-app-dapr-run/multi-app-overview/) with `dapr run -f .`.  This enables to you test the interactions between multiple applications.

Open a new terminal window and run  `order-processor` using the multi app run template defined in [dapr.yaml](./dapr.yaml):

1. Open a new terminal window and navigate to `order-processor` directory:

<!-- STEP
name: Install Node dependencies
-->

```bash
  cd ./order-processor
  npm install
  cd ..
```

<!-- END_STEP -->

2. Run the Node service app with Dapr:

<!-- STEP
name: Run order-processor service
expected_stdout_lines:
  - "== APP - order-processor == Saving Order:  { orderId: '1' }"
  - "== APP - order-processor == Getting Order:  { orderId: '1' }"
  - "Exited App successfully"
expected_stderr_lines:
output_match_mode: substring
match_order: none
background: true
sleep: 15
-->

```bash
  dapr run -f .
```
<!-- END_STEP -->

3. Stop and cleanup application process

```bash
  dapr stop -f .
```


## Run a single app at a time with Dapr (Optional)

An alternative to running all or multiple applications at once is to run single apps one-at-a-time using multiple `dapr run .. -- npm start` commands.  This next section covers how to do this.

## Run Node service with Dapr

1. Navigate to folder and install dependencies: 

<!-- STEP
name: Install Node dependencies
-->

```bash
  cd ./order-processor
  npm install
```
<!-- END_STEP -->

2. Run the Node service app with Dapr: 
    
<!-- STEP
name: Run Node publisher
expected_stdout_lines:
  - "== APP == Saving Order:  { orderId: '1' }"
  - "== APP == Getting Order:  { orderId: '1' }"
  - "Exited App successfully"
expected_stderr_lines:
working_dir: ./order-processor
output_match_mode: substring
match_order: none
background: true
sleep: 10
-->

```bash
dapr run --app-id order-processor --resources-path ../../../resources/ -- npm start
```
<!-- END_STEP -->

2. Stop and cleanup the process

```bash
dapr stop --app-id order-processor
```