Starter app for REST Api built with Express / mongoose

Node js app

• mkdir nodeapp
• npm init -y // initialize the app
• npm i -s express
• npm i nodemon --save-dev // add nodemon as devDependency to watch for changes
• dynamic route / ordering example

MongoDb

• Setup follow https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/install-community/

• for macOSX https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/

• brew services start mongodb-community@4.4 // start service

• brew services stop mongodb-community@4.4 // stop service

• mongo // to begin using mongoDB

• mongoimport --db simple --collection people --jsonArray users.json //Insert from terminal

• go to mongo shell

• use simple // create/select a db

• db.people.findOne() // see one entry in collection people

• db.people.remove() // to remove the collection

• db.dropDatabase() // delete a db

• show dbs

• npm i -s mongoose // install ORM mongoose

• npm i -s cors // handles CORS

References

• https://zellwk.com/blog/crud-express-mongodb/