Halo Spartan Database

Using node, created an express backend server that connected to a mongod database.

Used Rest API to communicate between the database and the node server.

The frontend application was a React website. The React app fetched data from the express server by proxying requests via the proxy line.

What I learned

• How to set up an express server using node.

• Learned how to create a database cluster using mongoDB. Also learned how to access the database through an express server.

• How to use Rest Api to connect to the database.

• How to create a React website.

• How to fetch data from an express server by proxying requests.

Dependencies

• body-parser - Parses our requests and gives us the correct way to handle our data.

• cors - Allows the application to work cross domain. (localhost:3000 and beyond)

• dotenv - Used to hide private information

• Express - allows node application to handle incoming requests. (I.e become a server)

• mongoose - an Object Data Modeling library for mongodb and node. Provides data modeling for the data.

• nodemon - detect changes in code and automatically update the node application.

Extra skills

• Usage of Postman.

• Understanding of JSON

• Usage of html, css

How the application works.

If its hard to see the images, recommend just viewing the images through the directory (Halo_Spartan_Database_Img).

Theres two parts of this project.

The backend

Mongodb database :

Sending requests through Postman :

The frontend

React website :

Extra

• Note that the .env file is not added with the Halo_Spartan_Database file because it contains user and pass.