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Objective

Create a back-end applcation in Node.js

Technologies I have used

• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Cluster

Learning process

All the project was based and followed in this playlist, by Academind YouTube chanell Creating a REST API with Node.js

How to run

TO DO

1. Clone the repository
2. Create a MongoDB Cluster (topic below)
3. Open the file nodemon.json

• Change database_password to your MongoDB database password.
• Change token_password to any word you want. This is just a salt to encrypt the password

4. Run this command to start the application

$ npm start

TODO Verify if it works

Create a cluster on MongoDB

TO DO

Using Postman

TO DO Print with the requests (GET, POST, DELETE, ...)

Commands I have used

$ npm init

$ npm install --save express  

$ node server.js  # run server

$ npm install --save-dev nodemon  # automatic restart server when change the code

$ npm start  # nodemon server.js

$ npm install --save morgan  # show the REST in terminal (ex: GET /orders/123 200)

$ npm install --save body-parser

$ npm install --save mongoose  # mongodb manager

$ npm install --save multer  

$ npm install bcrypt --save  # library to encrypt password 

$ npm install jsonwebtoken --save  # library for user token in login 

Versions

$ npm -v  # 3.5.2 

$ node -v  # v8.10.0

License

MIT