Clone the repo and install the dependencies with npm i.
Create a .env file in the root with the following content:
MONGODB_URI='mongodb+srv://username:password@cluster0.peec3.mongodb.net/db-name?retryWrites=true&w=majority'
PORT=3001
Where MONGODB_URI is a link to your MongoDB Atlas Cluster (in order to create one sign up here and follow these instructions).
Kill processes on port 3001 if any and then start the server with npm run dev.
The base URL is http://localhost:3001, the main endpoints are the following:
- GET /info (static page)
- GET /api/persons
- GET /api/persons/:id
- PUT /api/persons/:id
- POST /api/persons
- DELETE /api/persons/:id
- Generate a front-end
builddirectory and place it at the root of this app - Create a Heroku account and install its CLI on your machine
- Create a Heroku application with
heroku create - Commit your changes to GitHub with
git push origin main - Push everything to Heroku with
git push heroku main
The console should output the link to the deployed app which you can follow (in case of any errors check the logs with heroku logs -t).
Sample version of this app is available here. Cross-origin requests are allowed.
You can run mongo.js from your terminal with either of these commands:
$ node mongo.js yourpassword
$ node mongo.js yourpassword personname personnumber
mongo.js either enlists Person entries (1st command) or adds a new Person entry (2nd command) to a MongoDB collection at the url you specify in the file.