Building a RESTful API in Node, Express and MongoDB

Using Express 4.0 Router to build an API, Extended version from scotch.io's code with multiple objects/routes

Requirements

• Node and npm
• Download NodeJS from http://nodejs.org/

Installation

• Clone the repo: git clone git@github.com:shoaibuddin/nodejs-express-mongodb-api.git
• Install dependencies: npm install
• Start the server: node server.js
• Make sure to create account for mongoDB @ mongolab.com for Database
• Update credentials and db path in server.js mongoose.connect....

Testing the API

Test your API using Postman

Credit / Thanks

Thanks to scotch.io for awesome tutorial.

Demo URL on Heroku

• https://node-api-rest.herokuapp.com/api
• https://node-api-rest.herokuapp.com/api/employee
• https://node-api-rest.herokuapp.com/api/students