This is a working example of a Basic CRUD application developed in Node.js
Make sure to have NodeJS and MongoDB installed on your machine.
Additionally install nodemon and bunyan globally.
npm install -g nodemon
npm install -g bunyan
Nodemon automatically reload your application on file change Bunyan correctly format the logger output
PostMan Chrome Extension to test REST Services
In this branch you can find an empty enviroment ready for you to develop a NodeJS application.
Here is defined a base scheleton for an application.
You can check it out in server.js file.
There are some npm modules that are everytime usefull, check the list in package.json, they are:
- express - the Node framework
- mongoose - the ORM we will use to communicate with our MongoDB database
- body-parser - let us pull POST content from our HTTP request
- bunyan - a simple and fast JSON logging library for node.js services
Run this example with: nodemon server.js | bunyan
Check out server.js to connect to MongoDB and listen for DB related Events.
Open model/ninja.js to view how to define a Mongoose Model.
Define a custom middleware for all routes to capture the request.
Define a controller to handle request. Define a route to save a Ninja. Define a function to create and save a Ninja.
Define a route to query all Ninjas. Define a function to query all Ninjas.
Create a route to get information about a specific Ninja Add a parameter to the route
Create a route to delete a specific Ninja
Create a route to update a Ninja
Create an Angular application to consume your rest service (out of scope, only for clearance)
To run this application go to client folder, execute npm install, execute bower install and then run with grunt serve