README.md

Node-REST-API

This is a node RESTful API that uses Express engine and Mongo DB for CRUD operations. You can add, update, retrieve or delete a book record from the books database. The API routes are protected and access authenticated using Json Web Token (jwt)

Set Up

1. Clone the repo

   Run git clone "https://github.com/danmbeyah/Node-REST-API.git" .

2. Update/Install node modules

   Run npm update

3. Install dependencies

   Run npm install -save express mongodb body-parser jsonwebtoken

4. Install nodemon, a dev dependency to automatically restart server after file changes

   npm install --save-dev nodemon

5. Create an account on mLab where your Mongo DB will be hosted (https://mlab.com) For this repo, db is books and collection is books. Change user and password to reflect your settings in config.

To Run Server

npm run dev

Testing

Use Postman to run/access the APIs Login using http://localhost:8000/login to get access token. Set token in header for subsequent API calls below. Header {Authorization: Bearer }

POST http://localhost:8000/books Params(title,author,summary)

GET http://localhost:8000/books/:id Params (id is record ID from mLab)

DELETE http://localhost:8000/books/:id Params (id is record ID from mLab)

UPDATE. http://localhost:8000/books/:id Params(title,author,summary)

To Do

1. Develop React Native app to consume API