sachiket/e-commerce-node

A Node tutorial

A Node js tutorial.

Getting started

To get the Node server running locally:

• Clone this repo
• npm install to install all required dependencies
• Install MongoDB Community Edition (instructions) and run it by executing mongod
• npm run dev to start the local server

Alternately, to quickly try out this repo in the cloud, you can

Description

A shopping app using Node js.

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Dependencies

• expressjs - The server for handling and routing HTTP requests
• express-jwt - Middleware for validating JWTs for authentication
• jsonwebtoken - For generating JWTs used by authentication
• mongoose - For modeling and mapping MongoDB data to javascript
• mongoose-unique-validator - For handling unique validation errors in Mongoose. Mongoose only handles validation at the document level, so a unique index across a collection will throw an exception at the driver level. The mongoose-unique-validator plugin helps us by formatting the error like a normal mongoose ValidationError.

Application Structure

• app.js - The entry point to our application. This file defines our express server and connects it to MongoDB using mongoose. It also requires the routes and models we'll be using in the application.
• routes/ - This folder contains the route definitions for our API.
• models/ - This folder contains the schema definitions for our Mongoose models.