Ways to create REST API's

For your first application lets assume that you are building an application for blogs and you want to create  REST apis which can be consume by frontend/mobile application .

• • API should create blogs into database.
  • API should update blogs into database.
  • API should delete blogs from database.
  • API should find and fetch a blog using any existing blog id from database.

Prerequisite–

1. mongodb is installed and server is running on default port.
2. Node 6.9.0 is installed.
3. IDE like vscode is available to you.
4. Rest client like postman,curl for testing.

Installation

1. git clone https://github.com/ratneshsinghparihar/nodedata-demo-sample.git
2. cd nodedata-demo-sample/Demo-Sample
3. npm install

Code changes

• Add a model blogmodel.ts inside models folder.
• Add a repository blogmodelrepository.ts inside repositories folder.

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• Model with @document tell the system to create a document inside blogs collection.
• repository with blog name will create all necessary rest end points.

Testing

1. npm start
2. Post a JSON {“name”: “testBlog”} to http://localhost:9999/data/blogs
3. Hit the api to get data(http://localhost:9999/data/blogs)
4. Hit the api with put method http://localhost:9999/data/blogs/{{blogId}} with body {“name”: “testBlog1”}
5. Hit the api with delete method http://localhost:9999/data/blogs/{{blogId}}

Conclusion

Now you can see how creating rest apis is super easy with node-data. If you want to know more check out the our github
 
https://github.com/ratneshsinghparihar/Node-Data

Or visit our main page

https://nodedataio.azurewebsites.net/