Mavericks

Mavericks is a simple RESTful API wrapper around the ExpressJS framework utilizing mongoose as the schema generator, and connection to your MongoDB instance

Getting Started

Run npm install --save mavericks to add mavericks to your project.

Basic Usage

Once installed, you can initialize an ExpressJS app with the Mavericks default settings in your app.js/server.js by:

var Mavericks = require("mavericks");
var app = new Mavericks();

// Do some stuff to your express server
// ...

// Start our server
app.listen(3000, function(){
  console.log("Express server listening on port 3000")
})

Options

options.src

• type: string
• default: path.resolve(__dirname, 'models')

This is the path to your Mongoose Schema Files

options.db

• type: string
• default: 'mongodb://@localhost:27017/data'

This is the path to your MongoDB

options.logger

• type: string
• default: 'dev'

Basic Mongoose Schema

module.exports = {
  name: String,
  email: String
};

This basic example simply exposes a new object to be required and ran through mongoose.Schema

Modifying default routes

In order to modify the base routes used by Mavericks, simply expose your model schema as a function, and Mavericks will pass in our express instance so route overrides/addition can be made

Note: This requires mongoose to be installed as a dependency if you would like to access your model

var mongoose = require("mongoose");
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

module.exports = function(app){
  var schema = {
    name: String,
    email: String
  }
  var model = new Schema(schema);

  app.get("my_model/", function(req, res, next){
    // some arbitrary get method used in place
    // of a default get route  

    mongoose.model('Model', model).find({}, function(e, results){
      // ...
    })
  });

  return schema;
}

Default routes

By default Mavericks creates all the RESTful routes required by an API

get

• type: Array
• return: objects of the collection

get :collection/:id

• id: id of the object
• return_type: Object
• return: object from the collection. Empty object if nothing

get :collection/:id*

• id*: comma separated list of ids
• return_type: Array
• return: objects form the requested _ids

post :collection/

• return_type: Object
• return: The saved model with _id

put :colleciton/:id

• id: id of the object to update
• return_type: String
• return: success/error

delete :collection/:id

• id: id of the object to delete
• return_type: String
• return: success/error

delete :collection/:id*

• id*: comma separated list of ids to delete
• return_type: String
• return: success/error

Tests

Mavericks' test suite utilizes gulp to start a mongod instance, and expressjs server instance importing test schemas into Mavericks, and the runs a series of mocha tests. The src can be found at test/.

To run the tests

git clone git@github.com:morriswchris/mavericks
npm install
npm test

If you would just like to test locally, you can also start the test server by running npm start and the express server will start up at 0.0.0.0:3000 (Note: this will require a running mongodb service on the default port)

Contributions

All contributions welcome. Please fork and submit a pull request ... suggestions are also welcome!