acloudfan / REST-API-Course

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

RETIRED - please DO NOT Use

Instead use the repository below

https://github.com/acloudfan/REST-API-Course-V2

Checkout the course on UDEMY: https://www.udemy.com/course/rest-api/?referralCode=ADE763DAA790A3F0D211

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