iloveyii / api

PHP, Node application from fetching data from API and save to MySQL

Save data from API and display with Node

This is a small Test web application developed in PHP (Laravel), Node JS and Twitter Bootstrap 4.

Task Description

Develop an application to read data from an open API and save to MySQL. Display the data using Node js.

Installations

PHP Application

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/iloveyii/api.git.
• Create a database (api_data) in MySQL server and change the database credentials in api/php/config/database.php and api/php/.env files.
• CD to directory cd api/php and then install composer packages as composer install .
• Run the database migrations php artisan migrate.
• Run the data import command to get data from API and save to MySQL database as php artisan api:data.
• To test the end point cd to public/ and run php build server (or any) as php -S localhost:8080 and browse to http://localhost:8080/links .

Node Application

• CD to directory cd node and then run npm install npm install .
• Change database credentials at the top of the file api/node/server.js.
• Run the node server as npm start. Then browse to localhost:3000.

Requirements

• You many need to install the following.
  1. node >= 10.16.0
  2. npm >= 6.9.0
  3. PHP 7
  4. Apache 2 or Nginx Web server
  5. MySQL >= 5.7