Simple demo mongo/node/express api with angular front end

Summary

The kids are all about the mean these days.

The file server.js implements a minimal rest-style API for storing Product objects in a mongodb database. It runs under node and uses express. It uses the mongoose library to manage storing data in mongo.

Getting started

You will need to have node and npm on your machine

0. Make sure you have mongodb installed and that it's running. On a mac do brew install mongodb and follow the instructions
1. Clone this repo and cd into the directory created
2. Run npm install to install the node modules
3. On the command line do node server.js to start the server. It will listen on port 3000
4. Point browser at http://localhost:3000

Sending some test commands to just the api

You can use curl to send commands.

list products

curl -i http://localhost:3000/api/products

create a product

curl -i -d '{ "name": "new product", "price":"123.45" }' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:3000/api/products

read a product

curl -i localhost:3000/api/products/54f12ab3383e431c6e9213a1

update a product

curl -X PUT -i -d '{ "name": "updated product", "price":"123.45" }' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:3000/api/products/54f12ab3383e431c6e9213a1

delete a product

curl -X DELETE -i http://localhost:3000/api/products/54f12ab3383e431c6e9213a1

Notes

There is no security whatsoever here. Also invalid data will cause 500s. This is only intended to be a simple demo. If you were doing this for real you'd want more guards.