Any JSON CMS - API server

If you want to read general information about Any JSON CMS go here.

Any JSON CMS consists of two parts. Admin application server and API server. It is API server.

Installation

Step 1. Install the required dependencies.

• MongoDb v3+;
• Sendmail;
• Node.js v8+;

Step 2. Install the API server.

git clone git@github.com:evmizulin/cms-api.git
cd cms-api
npm install

Step 3. Update configuration file.

In project root folder there are configuration file config.js. Update it for your needs.

module.exports = {
  config: {
    isDemo: true,
    email: 'email',
    devApiUrl: 'http://localhost:8080',
    prodApiUrl: 'prod-api-url',
    devAppUrl: 'http://localhost:3000',
    prodAppUrl: 'prod-app-url',
    devApiServerHost: 'localhost',
    prodApiServerHost: 'localhost',
    devApiServerPort: 8080,
    prodApiServerPort: 8080,
    devMongoDbUrl: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/cms',
    prodMongoDbUrl: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/cms',
  },
}

All parameters that have dev and prod prefixes, will be used for development and production environments respectively.

• isDemo - there are several limitations of functionality of demo server, set flag to false and it will take off limitations;
• email - this parameter will be passed as from for Sendmail to send mails;
• apiUrl - URL of this API server;
• appUrl - URL of Admin application server;
• apiServerHost - this parameter will be passed as host to run Node.js server;
• apiServerPort - this parameter will be passed as port to run Node.js server;
• mongoDbUrl - this parameter will be passed to mongoose.connect function to connect MongoDb. Read more.

Step 4. Run API server.

To run API server in development environment:

npm start

You should see in console something like this:

2019-05-08T17:47:35.888Z listening on localhost:8080

To check if everything working fine, make:

curl http://localhost:8080/say-hello

To run API server in production environment:

npm run start.prod

You could see the logs in /logs folder.