title	description	tags
ExpressJS Mongoose	An ExpressJS server that connects to a MongoDB database	express mongodb mongoose typescript

ExpressJS Mongoose Example

This example starts an ExpressJS server that connects to a Railway MongoDB database using MongooseJS

✨ Features

• Express
• TypeScript
• MongoDB with Mongoose

💁‍♀️ How to use

• Install dependencies yarn
• Connect to your Railway project railway link
• Start the development server railway run yarn dev

📝 Notes

The starter contains a single Country model that you can read from and write to.

There are two main routes on the server:

• A GET route - /countries which returns all the countries
• A POST route - /countries which can be used to add a new country

Example post request to add a new country:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request POST \
  -d '{"name":"India","iso2code":"IN"}' \
  http://localhost:3333/countries