plaitse / a-nodejs-api

Node.js API

Visit https://a-nodejs-api.herokuapp.com

Routes:

• /todos

To deploy on Heroku

Connect DB online

• Create a "free" new DB on https://mlab.com
• Add a database user
• Copy the the URI using the database user credentials
• heroku config:set MONGODB_URI="URI"

Push project on Heroku

• git push heroku master

To test the API via Postman

• NB: It can take up to 1 minute for the server to charge

Todos routes

• GET https://a-nodejs-api.herokuapp.com/todos
• GET https://a-nodejs-api.herokuapp.com/todos:id
• POST https://a-nodejs-api.herokuapp.com/todos

{
    "text": "Test via postman"
}

-> NB: Be sure to select JSON (application/json) when writing the body in Postman

• DELETE https://a-nodejs-api.herokuapp.com/todos:id
• UPDATE https://a-nodejs-api.herokuapp.com/todos:id

{
	"text": "New test"
}

Users routes

• GET https://a-nodejs-api.herokuapp.com/users/me -> passing x-auth/token in headers request found in POST headers response
• POST https://a-nodejs-api.herokuapp.com/users

{
	"email": "[e-mail]",
	"password": "pass123!"
}

To test on local machine

• Install MongoDB and create a mongo-data folder next to it
• ./mongod --dbpath ~/.../mongo-data in mongo/bin root folder
• if port already used: sudo lsof -i :portNumberand kill -9 PID
• npm run testWatch to run units tests
• npm start to run server
• Use Robomongo to check data