ZLester / JS-API-Hackathon

Build a RESTful API using Node, Express, Mongoose, and MongoDB

API Hackathon

Create a RESTful API with a dataset of your chosing!

• You can use one of the sample datasets I've provided, or hunt down one of your own using some of the links below.
• Don't spend too much time gathering data! If you do decide to find your own dataset, I’d recommend starting by modeling a few items in JSON, using Postman or curl-ing a small sample of data, putting it in a JSON file or a simple mongo DB, and then building the URL endpoints and controllers to perform and serve up queries for the data.
• Bonus points if you can deploy the API server and data to Heroku, Azure, or another PaaS of your choosing!

Places to find data sets

I've included sample data sets for sales contacts, Game of Thrones characters, and the original 151 Pokemon, though feel free to find your own!

• https://github.com/jdorfman/awesome-json-datasets - An (awesome) list of JSON datasets that require no authentication
• https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis - A list of public API's to grab data from.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets - A small-ish subreddit devoted to free datasets (sorting by top/all time usually yields the best results)