Prototype code base for usage of a RESTful API with Node.js and Express Framework
- morgan is used for logging requests to the console
- nodemon is used for automatically restarting the server when your code changes
npm start is all you need after cloning the repo
steven@steven-Surface-Laptop-3:~/Development/node-rest-api$ npm start
> rest-api@1.0.0 start
> nodemon server.js
[nodemon] 2.0.15
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching path(s): *.*
[nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
[nodemon] starting `node server.js`
Connected to `DoccleTest`!
GET /products 200 37.649 ms - 723
{
_id: new ObjectId("61fe49a37a72c91908feee8f"),
name: 'Latest one POSTed',
price: 2345,
__v: 0
}
POST /products/ 201 57.984 ms - 223
GET /orders/61fe4606a0cebbde6e5237e7 200 31.595 ms - 165
{
_id: new ObjectId("61fe4a057a72c91908feee93"),
product: new ObjectId("61fe49a37a72c91908feee8f"),
quantity: 666,
__v: 0
}
POST /orders/ 201 64.962 ms - 215
The Postman collection build for this demo is published here.