VIDEO COLLECTION APP

A simple video collection application done using MEAN stack.

PREREQUISITE

You should have NodeJS and npm installed on your local machine to run this application.

GETTING STARTED

clone the project to your local environment using git clone https://github.com/avishkaperera/video-collection-app.git and then run npm install to get all the relevant node modules installed on your local development environment to get started with the project. After that run ng build to build the Angular project. A directory named dist will be created and build files of the Angular application will be stored in this directory.

Node Express server will find the index.html inside dist directory to find the Angular application running within the server environment. This way you do not need to run the server and the application separately.

app.get('*', function(req, res) {
    res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'dist/index.html'));
});

DATABASE

This application uses an instance of MongoDB from mLab as the database.

You can go to: https://mlab.com/ and create a database instance for yourself and use the credentials in your application to access the database.

Import mongoose module to conveniently do database operations

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

Connect to the database

const db = 'mongodb://url-to-mlab-database-instance/videoplayer';
mongoose.Promise = global.Promise;

mongoose.connect(db, function(err) {
    if (err) {
        console.log('connection error :' + err);
    } else {
        console.log('connected to db');
    }
});

ENDPOINTS

GET VIDEOS

router.get('/videos', function(req, res) {
    console.log('GET request to /videos');
    Video.find({}).exec(function(err, videos) {
        if (err) {
            console.log('Error getting videos :' + err);
        } else {
            res.json(videos);
        }
    });
});

GET SINGLE VIDEO

router.get('/video/:id', function(req, res) {
    console.log('GET request to /video/:id');
    Video.findById(req.params.id).exec(function(err, video) {
        if (err) {
            console.log('Error getting video :' + err);
        } else {
            res.json(video);
        }
    });
});

POST VIDEO

router.post('/video', function(req, res) {
    console.log('POST request to /video');

    var newVideo = new Video();
    newVideo.title = req.body.title;
    newVideo.url = req.body.url;
    newVideo.description = req.body.description;
    newVideo.save(function(err, insertedVideo) {
        if (err) {
            console.log('could not save video :' + err);
        } else {
            res.json(insertedVideo);
        }
    });
});

UPDATE VIDEO

router.put('/video/:id', function(req, res) {
    console.log('PUT request to /video/:id');

    Video.findByIdAndUpdate(req.params.id, {
        $set: { title: req.body.title, url: req.body.url, description: req.body.description }
    }, { new: true }, function(err, updatedVideo) {
        if (err) {
            console.log('could not update video :' + err);
        } else {
            res.json(updatedVideo);
        }
    });
});

DELETE VIDEO

router.delete('/video/:id', function(req, res) {
    console.log('DELETE request to /video/:id');

    Video.findByIdAndRemove(req.params.id, function(err, deletedVideo) {
        if (err) {
            res.send('could not delete video :' + err);
        } else {
            res.send(deletedVideo);
        }
    })
});

This project was generated with Angular CLI version 1.4.3.

Further help

To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.