Nod JS and Mongo DB Example

1- Project workspace and setup

Create project folder and initialize an npm project

> mkdir crm

> cd crm

> npm init -y

2- Set up Git repository

> git add .

> git commit -m "Initial Commit"

> git remote add origin https://github.com/manaseer/crm.git

> git push -u origin master

3a- Install dependencies

Install MongoDB and then install Express and Mongoose

> npm install express body-parser mongoose nodemon

> touch .gitignore

3b- Install Dev. dependencies

Install MongoDB and then install Express and Mongoose

> npm install --save-dev babel-cli babel-preset-env

Inside .gitignore add the following

• node_modules

4- Create server inside index.js

import express from 'express' ;

const PORT = 3000;
const app = express();



app.get('/',(req,res)=>{
  res.send('Node and express server is running on port '+PORT);
});

app.listen(PORT,()=>{
  console.log('Express server is running on '+PORT);
});

5- Create folder structure of the project

We'll create a parent src folder and inside this create following three subfolders

• controllers
• models
• routes

> mkdir src && cd src && mkdir controllers && mkdir models && mkdir routes