REST-Blog-API with Express

Module 2 Lab

Packages which will be in dependencies:

express
morgan
errorhandler
body-parser
node-dev

To install them: npm i express morgan errorhandler body-parser -E

To install node-dev npm i node-dev -DE

How to run it?

Launch server with npm start in Terminal/Command Prompt from the project root

How to use it?

Use Postman, CURL or any other HTTP request agent to test this server.

Postman download

When using Postman for the POST request, make sure to select body, raw and JSON (application/json) settings to avoid a common mistake of not providing the right request payload format.

CRUD commands are:

posts post data

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name": "Top 10 ES6 Features", "url":"http://webapplog.com/es6", "text": ""}' "http://localhost:3000/posts"

updates post data at a specified id

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X PUT -d '{"name": "Top 10 ES6 Features Every Developer Must Know", "url":"http://webapplog.com/es6", "text": ""}' "http://localhost:3000/posts/0"

gets post data

curl "http://localhost:3000/posts"

deletes post data and a specified id