sffej/rest-api-course

Shows how Express & Mongoose may be used for creating RESTful API. Part of the "REST API Course"

Created as part of the course on "REST API".

Demonstrates the setting up of URI for the REST API

http://www.acloudfan.com/learn-REST-API

Following node practices defined here: https://github.com/felixge/node-style-guide https://blog.risingstack.com/node-js-best-practices/

Recent Change - 12/25/2017

• Data updated for the testing. ** Instead of providing the User/Password now the URI for DB is used in the format:

mongodb://:@SERVER:PORT/DB-NAME

1. Clone this project on local file system

2. Pre-requisistes a. Understanding of node/npm b. An instance of MongoDB available either locally or remotely c. Import the data available in the repository

3. Run > npm install Deploys the packages express body-parser mongoose

Create from scratch

1. create the project

2. git init

3. add .gitignore

4. npm init

5. npm install the packages (express,body-parser,mongoose)

6. create folder = models