Node Basics

A repository for Node as a Web Api talk at Angle Brackets 2015 conference

Slides available here

Requirements

• http://nodejs.org

• git

• NPM global modules:

  npm install -g gulp bunyan json

Clone the repo

git clone git@github.com:sartioli/node-web-api.git
cd node-web-api

01 Basic Server

cd 01-basic_server
node index.js

http://localhost:3000

02 Express

cd 02-express
npm install
node index.js

http://localhost:3000

03 Crud

cd 03-express
npm install
node index.js


curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"jessy","age":"3","type":"siamese"}' http://localhost:3000/cat | json

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"sam","age":"5","type":"alley"}' http://localhost:3000/cat | json

curl -s -X GET http://localhost:3000/cat | json

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -d '{"name":"sam","age":"8","type":"alley"}' http://localhost:3000/cat/sam | json

curl -s -X DELETE http://localhost:3000/cat/sam | json

04 MongoDB

https://www.mongodb.org/downloads

On Mac I recommend homebrew

brew up
brew install mongodb

cd 04-mongodb
npm install
nodemon index.js

# mongo commands
show dbs
use cats
db.cats.find()
db.cats.remove({})
use cats
db.dropDatabase()

05 Request

https://github.com/request/request

cd 05-request
npm install
forever start cat_server.js
forever start dog_server.js
forever list

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"jessy","age":"3","type":"boxer"}' http://localhost:3000/dog | json

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"sam","age":"5","type":"bulldog"}' http://localhost:3000/dog | json

curl -s -X GET http://localhost:3000/dog | json

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -d '{"name":"sam","age":"8","type":"bulldog"}' http://localhost:3000/dog/ID | json

curl -s -X DELETE http://localhost:3000/dog/ID | json

nodemon pet_server.js

http://localhost:3002/pets

06 Async

https://github.com/caolan/async

cd 06-async
npm install
forever start cat_server.js
forever start dog_server.js
forever list
nodemon pet_server.js

http://localhost:3002/pets

07 Non Blocking

https://github.com/caolan/async

cd 07-non_blocking
npm install
forever stopall
forever start cat_server.js
forever start dog_server.js
forever list
nodemon pet_server.js

http://localhost:3002/pets http://localhost:3002/ping

08 Redis

http://redis.io/download

On Mac I recommend homebrew

brew up
brew install redis

cd 08-redis
npm install
forever stopall
forever start cat_server.js
forever start dog_server.js
forever list
nodemon pet_server.js

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"jessy","age":"3","type":"siamese"}' http://localhost:3000/cat | json

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"sam","age":"5","type":"alley"}' http://localhost:3000/cat | json

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"joe","age":"4","type":"garfield"}' http://localhost:3000/cat | json

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"mama","age":"9","type":"tabby"}' http://localhost:3000/cat | json

curl -s -X GET http://localhost:3000/cat | json

http://localhost:3002/catname/ID

# Useful redis commands
redis-cli
set key value
get key
keys *
flushdb

09 Auth

cd 09-auth
npm install
gulp | bunyan -l info --color

http://localhost:3000/api/latest/basic/ping http://localhost:3000/api/latest/basic/config http://localhost:3000/api/latest/basic/echo/yourname

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"email":"sam@test.com","password":"123"}' http://localhost:3000/api/latest/auth/signup | json

http://localhost:3000/api/latest/auth/ping

curl -s -X GET -H "x-access-token: TOKEN" http://localhost:3000/api/latest/auth/ping | json

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"email":"sam@test.com","password":"123"}' http://localhost:3000/api/latest/auth/login | json