Sample Express/Nodejs Backend

This is an Express/Nodejs application.

It exposes a REST API using Swagger which can be accessed at http://localhost:5000/api/news/. Rest API details mentioned later.

For changing the server url, port include a properties file.

To Install and Run in Development mode

 npm run dev 

or

 nodemon app.js

MongoDB Setup:

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{path to mongod executable}/mongod.exe --dbpath "{path to data i.e storage directory}"

Eg: ./mongod.exe --dbpath "C:/data/db"

We have a database named "newsAPI".
It contains a collection named "news". This collection will store our documents.

Sample JSON document:

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{
"title" : "Govt declares help",
"content" : "Govt decides to extend help to flood victims",
"author" : "Sam",
"image" : "dlkfjlk",
"source" : "TOI"
}

REST API:

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Try the following using Postman or your favorite Rest client

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1. POST Create News
http://localhost:5000/api/news/

HEADERS
Content-Type application/json

BODY
{
    "title": "Coffee",
    "content": "Coffee may be good for your health",
    "author": "Victor",
    "image": "iuyf056",
    "source": "ABC"
}

---

2. DEL Delete News
http://localhost:5000/api/news/{id}

HEADERS
Content-Type application/json

BODY
{
    "title": "Coffee",
    "content": "Coffee may be good for your health",
    "author": "Victor",
    "image": "iuyf056",
    "source": "ABC"
}

---

3. GET Get all News
http://localhost:5000/api/news

HEADERS
Content-Type application/json

BODY
{
    "title": "Coffee",
    "content": "Coffee may be good for your health",
    "author": "Victor",
    "image": "iuyf056",
    "source": "ABC"
}

---

4. GET Get a single news by id
http://localhost:5000/api/news/{id}

HEADERS
Content-Type application/json

BODY
{
    "title": "Coffee",
    "content": "Coffee may be good for your health",
    "author": "Victor",
    "image": "iuyf056",
    "source": "ABC"
}

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Note: For id's we will use Mongo generated IDs because when application will scale incrementing/ decrementing id's for additions/ deletions across multiple machines/ shards.

Reading:

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1. https://medium.com/front-end-weekly/callbacks-promises-and-async-await-ad4756e01d90

2. Using Promises - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15852043/mongoose-find-how-to-access-the-result-documents