Superblog API

This is a little node server with CRUD interface. It's a full-stack project along with an API server. The project consists in a blog, where i can write my posts, update them and delete them. There is also a sorting order functionality that helps me to place my posts by ascending order.

Installation

1. After creating an empty folder, with a index.html and index.js, i initialize the project with npm init. This will create the package-json and node-moduler folder
2. In the package-json i will add all the dependencies i need for the app, like webpack, babel, materialize, mongoose, pug, axios, express (in this app i also use the database - MongoDB)
3. I need a config file to give it instructions on what to do : webpack.config.js. Should look like this :

const path = require("path");

var config = {
  entry: './src/index.js',
  output: {
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, "./src"),
    filename: 'bundle.js',
    publicPath: './src'
  },
  devServer: {
    inline: true,
    port: 8080,
  },

  module: {
    rules: [
      { test: /\.css$/, loader: "style-loader!css-loader" },
      {
        test: /\.jsx?$/,
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        loader: 'babel-loader',
        query: {
          presets: ['es2015', 'react']
        }
      },
    ],
  }

}
module.exports = config;

4. Now i can install everthing from the terminal, with npm install or npm i
5. We can create a .gitignore file, adding the _node-modules and the .env file

Create a copy of env file: cp .env.example .env and set my credentials. Eg:

PORT=5000
MONGOURL=mongodb://localhost/superblog

(i can decide the port where the magic happens :-) )

Start node server

node server/server.js

Routes

• GET /api/posts all posts
• POST /api/posts creates a post. The request body must contain the post itself. See model
• DELETE /api/posts:id deletes a post by given id eg: /api/posts/5ad4ce741a411bc2cb787445
• PUT /api/posts:id deletes a post by given id eg: /api/posts/5ad4ce741a411bc2cb787445

Model

{
    name: String,
    content: String,
    order: Number
}```