This example will guide you through the code to build a simple Node.js Shopping App with the Minio Server.
We will use Minio Javascript Client SDK to fetch the application's image assets from the Minio Server.

The full code is available at https://github.com/minio/minio-js-store-app, and is released under Apache 2.0 License.

• Install mc from here.
• Install Minio Server from here.

• Express web framework.
• Handlebars.

We will use Express for our application framework and Handlebars as the view engine.

Get the code for this example as shown below and then do npm install to get the express, handlebars and minio node-modules installed.

minio-store.js will serve as our app's entry point.

git clone https://github.com/minio/minio-js-store-app
cd minio-js-store-app
npm install

1. We've created a public minio server https://play.minio.io:9000 for developers to use as a sandbox. Minio Client mc is preconfigured to use the play server. Download mc to do the next set of steps. Make a bucket called minio-store on play.minio.io. Use mc mb command to accomplish this. More details on the mc mb command can be found here.

    mc mb play/minio-store

2. Store product image assets can be set to public readwrite. Use mc policy command to set the access policy on this bucket to "both". More details on the mc policy command can be found here.

    mc policy public play/minio-store

3. Upload store product pictures into this bucket. Use mc cp command to do this. More details on the mc cp command can be found here.

   mc cp ~/Downloads/Product-1.jpg play/minio-store/
   mc cp ~/Downloads/Product-2.jpg play/minio-store/
   mc cp ~/Downloads/Product-3.jpg play/minio-store/
   mc cp ~/Downloads/Product-4.jpg play/minio-store/

   NOTE : We have already created a minio-store bucket on play.minio.io and copied the assets used in this example, into this bucket.

In minio-store.js file, require minio and instantiate a minioClient object with play server's endpoint, port and access keys. Access keys shown in this example are open to public

var Minio = require('minio');
var minioClient = new Minio.Client({
 	 endPoint: 'play.minio.io',
     port: 9000,
	 accessKey: 'Q3AM3UQ867SPQQA43P2F',
	 secretKey: 'zuf+tfteSlswRu7BJ86wekitnifILbZam1KYY3TG'
});

NOTE : for using minio server locally also add secure: false, in above code.

Set up a route for '/' in the minio-store.js file. Using the listObjects method, get a list of all the files from the minio-store bucket. listObjects returns product urls which are pushed into an array variable called assets. Pass the assets array to home.handlebars view.

var minioBucket = 'minio-store'

app.get('/', function(req, res){
  var assets = [];
  var objectsStream = minioClient.listObjects(minioBucket, '', true)
  objectsStream.on('data', function(obj) {
    console.log(obj);
    // Lets construct the URL with our object name.
    var publicUrl = minioClient.protocol + '//' + minioClient.host + ':' + minioClient.port + '/' + minioBucket + '/' + obj.name
    assets.push(publicUrl);
  });
  objectsStream.on('error', function(e) {
    console.log(e);
  });
  objectsStream.on('end', function(e) {
    console.log(assets);
    // Pass our assets array to our home.handlebars template.
    res.render('home', { url: assets });
  });
});

Loop through assets_url in home.handlebars to render the thumbnails of product images. For simplicity in this example we do not use a database to store rows of product information. But you may store the image url from this array into your products schema if needed.

<!-- Page Features -->
<div class="row text-center">
	{{#each url}}
     <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 hero-feature">
          <div class="thumbnail">
               <img src="{{this}}" max-height=200 max-width=200 alt="">
               <div class="caption">
                     <h3>Product Name</h3>
                     <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.</p>
                     <p> <a href="#" class="btn btn-primary">Buy Now!</a> <a href="#" class="btn btn-default">More Info</a> </p>
                </div>
           </div>
      </div>
  {{/each}}   
 </div>

The full code is available here : https://github.com/minio/minio-js-store-app. Do the following steps to start the app server.

git clone https://github.com/minio/minio-js-store-app
cd minio-js-store-app
npm install
node minio-store.js

To see the app, open a browser window and visit http://localhost:3000

• Using minio-js client sdk with Minio Server.
• Minio JavaScript Client SDK API Reference.