benhallouk / hapi-mongoose

Nodejs sample application with hapi and mongoose/mongodb

Sample Application with Nodejs, Hapi and Mongoose/MongoDB

This is a sample nodejs hapi application that show how you can use nodejs with hapi and mongoose/mongodb

Pluguins used:

• hapi
• inert
• vision
• handlebars
• joi
• boom
• mongoose

Dev plugins:

• nodemon
• npm-watch
• lab
• code
• sinon

Instructions

Install mongodb from download link

To start create a db

cd "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin"

mongod.exe --port 27017

Ensure you choose private network only, open another command line and connect to create db

mongo.exe --port 27017

use tododb

db.createUser(
  {
    user: "dbuser",
    pwd: "dbpassword",
    roles: [{ role: "readWrite", db: "tododb" }]
  }
)

Create a dummy document, you need to do that inrder to see the collection of documents as it need at least one existing document

db.todos.insert({x:y})

Now that we have user, and db created start mongodb in authentication mode

cd "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin"

mongod.exe --auth --port 27017

Install robomongo from download link

connect to the mongodb using the localhost port 27017 and your credentials you should see the tododb with single dummy document, you can delete the dummy document later

Install the node dependancies by naviagating to the application folder and run the command

npm install

Set the DB connection string enviroment variable DBConnection for example in windows you would run the command

$env:DBConnection = "mongodb://dbuser:dbpssword@localhost:27017/tododb"

Run the server using

npm start