Express Microservices

Prerequisites

• MongoDB
• If using .env.template, local instance of mongod running

Install

npm install

Run Server

npm start

Timestamp Microservice

Get Timestamp

Request

GET /api/timestamp

curl -i -H 'Accept: application/json' http://localhost:3000/api/timestamp/2023-06-23

Response

200 OK

{
  "unix": 1687478400000,
  "utc": "Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT"
}

Whoami Microservice

Get Whoami

Request

GET /api/whoami

curl -i -H 'Accept: application/json' http://localhost:3000/api/whoami

Response

200 OK

{
  "ipaddress": "your ip address",
  "language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
  "software": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0"
}

Url Shortener Microservice

Get Short Url

Note

Must be a document present in database

Request

GET /api/url-shortener/:shortUrl

curl -i -H 'Accept: application/json' http://localhost:3000/api/url-shortener/1

Response

200 OK

{
  "originalUrl": "dev.to",
  "shortUrl": 1
}

Create Short Url

Request

POST /api/url-shortener

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/url-shortener
   -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
   -d '{"url": "dev.to" }'

Response

200 OK

{
  "originalUrl": "dev.to",
  "shortUrl": 1
}

File Metadata Microservice

Get File Metadata

Request

POST /api/file-metadata

curl -F 'file=@/home/path/to/a/folder/fry-example.jpg' http://localhost:3000/api/file-metadata

Response

{
  "name": "fry-test.jpg",
  "type": "image/jpeg",
  "size": 640254
}