Basic App Example

A basic Node js Backend app written in ES6 demonstrating the usage of the mongo Helper library pkmongo and some other basic middleware features.

Please Note that this example uses ES6 syntax and promises.

Get Started

First, Clone this repo and run npm install to get install all the listed dependencies.

Make sure your local mongo db is running at port 27017 and you have a db named as 'test'. If you wish to connect to some different db, please search for the below line in app.js file and change the connection string.

MongoHelper.initialize('mongodb://localhost:27017/test');

Once you have the db ready, please run npm start to get the backend app started. You should see the below message in your console:

bash-3.2$ npm start
> basicappexample@1.0.0 start  
/..../BasicAppExample
> node ./bin/index.js
 ********** : MongoHelper Intializing
connecting to Mongo: mongodb://localhost:27017/test
 ********** : running on 3005
Established Mongo Connection!

Now the App is ready!

Testing the APIs

This App has 3 APIs ready to be used.

• Root Test API (GET - /)
• Create User (POST - /user)
• Get User (GET - /user/:mob)

You can test these apis by using tool as postman or by simple curl request. Please find some sample curl request below:

Root Test API

curl -X GET \
  http://localhost:3005/ \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache'

Create User

curl -X POST \
  http://localhost:3005/user \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{
	"mobile":"9012345678",
	"name":"Pankaj"
}'

Get User

curl -X GET \
  http://localhost:3005/user/9012345678 \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache'