MediaComem / comem-archioweb-2023-2024-express-api

Basic Express.js example written during the COMEM+ Web-Oriented Architecture course

Express API

A basic Express.js API example written during the Media Engineering Web-Oriented Architecture course.

Requirements

• Node.js 20+
• MongoDB 6+

Usage

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/MediaComem/comem-archioweb-2023-2024-express-api.git

# Install dependencies
cd comem-archioweb-2023-2024-express-api
npm ci

# Run the application
npm start

# Run the application in development mode with live reload
npm run dev

Configuration

The application is configured through the following environment variables:

Variable	Default value	Description
BCRYPT_COST_FACTOR	10	Cost factor for password hashing with bcrypt.
DATABASE_URL	mongodb://localhost/express-api	The MongoDB connection URI.
JWT_SECRET	-	The secret used to sign JWTs. It should be a long random string.
PORT	3000	The port the server will listen on.

This application includes dotenv. In development, you can also copy the .env.sample file to .env and adapt it to suit your environment.