OthDr / app-express

News_Express Application

Express.JS REST API for news

How to use:

• npm install to install all node-modules.
  
• npm start start server.
  
• npm test run test.
  

HTTP : GET POST PATCH DELETE

• JSON request & response.
• URlemncoded(x-www-form-urlencoded) requests.

Database Mongodb : with mongoose

• Collection 1: for news articles
• Collection 2: for news authors

POST request body validation & Errors

using Joi object schema const Joi = require('joi')

• Used Joi package : Created an object schema to validate the req.body.
  
• Used mongoose schema : mongoose ORM for Mongodb provided schema validation of db models.
  
• Send back the error on the response.
  

Middleware

body-parser const bParser = require('body-parser'): To parse request body JSON or urlencoded .

routes: response can be redered on HTML page

GET :

• GET('/news') recent news
  

• GET('/news/country=:c_code') news based on country code
  

• GET('/news/category=:cat_code') news based on category
  

• GET('/news/:id') get a post by it's ID
  

POST :

• POST('/add_news') create a new post
  

PATCH :

• PATCH('/add_news') update an existing post in the database
  

DELETE :

• DELETE('/add_news') delete a post from the databse
  

testing

Mocha & chai

"scripts": { "test": "mocha --exit" }
chai-http (request testing), should & expect (Assertions)

About news:

• News countries: countries = ['dz','us','fr','ru','in','de','tr','eg','br','ca','cz','it','ua']
• News categories: categories =['business','entertaiment','general','health','science','sports','technologie']

example URL :

"http://localhost:3000/api/news/category=sports"
"http://localhost:3000/api/news/country=dz"