es6-express-mongoose-starter

This repo serves as an starter package written in JavaScript (ES6) for anyone looking to get up and running with Express and Mongoose fast. It contains a example REST API for fictious todos connected to MongoDB and uses Mocha/Chai for the unit tests.

Best practices in file and application organization
Ready to go build system for working with ES6
Uses Eslint for code linting
Example of REST API connected to MongoDB (by Mongoose)
Example unit tests created with Mocha/Chai and Mockgoose

Getting Started

Requirements

Node.js >= 6.x
MongoDB

Clone project & install dependencies

$ git clone git://github.com/patrickvaler/es6-express-mongoose-starter ./my-example-app
$ cd my-example-app

$ yarn install
  OR
$ npm install

Initialize MongoDB with data

The server tries to connect with 'mongodb://localhost:27017/es6-express-mongoose-starter', you can overwrite this default setting for each environment in src/config/config.js.

Connect to your MongoDB instance and insert:

$ use es6-express-mongoose-starter
$ db.todos.insert([{ name: 'Book flight to Los Angeles' },
                   { name: 'Reserve a table at a chinese restaurant' },
                   { name: 'Buy birthday present for Tom' },
                   { name: 'Book flight to Los Angeles' }]);

Run backend

$ npm run serve

Runs the application with nodemon. Server is listening on Port 3000 by default, you can overwrite this default setting for each environment in src/config/config.js

Test if the backend is running by curl or a tool like Postman:

$ curl localhost:3000/api/v1

It should return the current version of the package.json file.

All available routes of this starter package can be found below or in src/config/routes.js.

Additional information

Available routes

Get a list of Todos

GET localhost:3000/api/v1/todo

Add a Todo

POST localhost:3000/api/v1/todo

Body: {
    name: String
}

Update a Todo

PUT localhost:3000/api/v1/todo/:id

Body: {
    name: String
}

Delete a Todo

DELETE localhost:3000/api/v1/todo/:id

Scripts

Run for development

$ npm run serve

Runs the application with nodemon. Server is listening on Port 3000 by default, this can be overwritten by API_PORT constant in src/config/config.js. Application will automatically run babel and eslint and restart if a code change was detected.

Build

$ npm run build

Runs eslint, transpiles the ES6 code and copies the transpiled code into build folder.

Test

$ npm test

Runs eslint and verifies the unit tests from test/ folder;

Eslint

is pre-configured for this starter package. It uses the airbnb configuration package and a minimal set of own rules. Configuration is available in .eslintrc.js.

Unit-Tests

A set of unit tests is available in test/ folder. Mocha/Chai was used to create and run the unit tests.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Made with ♥ by Patrick Valer (hello@patrickvaler.ch)

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