AidanMarroyo / NASA-API

This Node.js application utilizes SpaceX's REST API to showcase SpaceX's launch history. Features include fetching and displaying launch data, REST API endpoints, MongoDB integration, and Docker support for deployment.

NASA API

Welcome to the NASA API project! This project is designed to utilize SpaceX's REST API to display all of SpaceX's launch history. It's a Node.js application that serves as a backend service, fetching and processing data from SpaceX's API and presenting it in a structured format.

Features

• Fetch and display SpaceX's launch history.
• REST API endpoints to query launch data.
• Integration with MongoDB for data persistence.
• Docker support for easy deployment.

Technologies

This project is built using Node.js and Express, with a MongoDB database for storing launch history data. Here are the main technologies and libraries used:

• Node.js & Express: For setting up the server and API endpoints.
• MongoDB & Mongoose: For database management and schema definition.
• Axios: For making HTTP requests to SpaceX's API.
• Cors: To enable CORS with various options.
• CSV-Parse: For parsing CSV files, if needed.
• Dotenv: To load environment variables from a .env file.
• Morgan: HTTP request logger middleware for Node.js.
• PM2: Advanced, production process manager for Node.js.

Development Dependencies

• Jest: For running tests.
• Nodemon: For automatically restarting the node application when file changes in the directory are detected.
• Supertest: For HTTP assertions, making it easy to test API endpoints.