How To Build an Express CRUD App

Specifically a blog using Jade and Mongoose. In this lesson you will learn

• What is Express
• How to create routes
• What is Jade
• How to render Jade templates
• What is Mongo
• What is Mongoose
• How to create, read, update and delete with Mongoose models
• How to utilize HTTP (via Express) to create, read, update and delete

Wow! That's sweet! 🆒

Step 1

Download the express-generator package from npmjs.org

npm install --global express-generator

Use the now globally installed CLI to genereate a new project called "blog"

express blog

Change directories to the blog project folder

cd blog

Install the projects dependencies from npmjs.org

npm install

Step 2

Change the homepage to have the title of your blog.

• Pass a new title to the Jade file

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Step 3

Cool site but could use some content. Let's setup a database.

Add mongoose as a dependency and save it to your package.json

npm install --save mongoose

• Tell mongoose to connect to the mongo database

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• create a new folder for your models

mkdir models

• create models/post.js using the Mongoose API

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Step 4

A good nights REST

	GET	POST	PUT	DELETE
/posts/	Show all posts	Add new post	N/A	N/A
/posts/<id>	Show <id>	N/A	Update <id>	Delete <id>

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