crudify-mongoose

Simple generator to create RESTful url routes, render forms and handle Create, Read, Update and Delete requests for a given Mongoose model

Install

$ npm install crudify-mongoose

RESTful routes

Generate RESTful url routes for the Mongoose model supplied. You should use the pluralized name of the model in place of {resources}.

module.exports = mongoose.model('user', userSchema); // {resources} == 'users'

URL routes:

GET /{resources}/
GET /{resources}/create/
POST /{resources}/
GET /{resources}/{id}/
GET /{resources}/{id}/edit/
PUT /{resources}/{id}/
DELETE /{resources}/{id}/

Usage

/**
 * @param {Object} options
 * @param {Object} options.model
 *		  - A Mongoose model of the resource you want 
 *          to CRUDify.
 * @param {String} [options.theme] 
 *		  - The locacation of the views to render. 
 *          There are default forms which require your 
 *          app to use EJS view engine.
 * @param {Array} [options.middleware]
 *		  - An array of middleware you want to use for 
 *          each route. You can add authentication in 
 *          this way (none is used by default).
 * @param {Array} [options.ignoredProperties] 
 *		  - The model properties which you don't want 
 *          to see. By default this list is ['_id', '__v'].
 */

crudGenerator(options);

Example

var crudGenerator = require('crudify-mongoose');
var userModel = require('./model/user');

/**
 * Generate routes and controller methods
 * for the users resources:
 *     - GET /admin/users/
 *     - GET /admin/users/create/
 *     - POST /admin/users/
 *     - GET /admin/users/{id}/
 *     - GET /admin/users/{id}/edit/
 *     - PUT /admin/users/{id}/
 *     - DELETE /admin/users/{id}/
 */
app.use('/admin', crudGenerator({
	model: userModel,
	middleware: [
		function (res, req, next){
			console.log('middle');
			next();
		}
	],
	ignoredProperties: ['__v', '_id', 'modifiedAt']
}));

Todo

Modify to accept multiple models in one call to app().
Listen to Accept: header or file extension to determine whether to send HTML or encoded (e.g. JSON) responses.
Make Create/Edit forms smart enough to allow you to pick a relation from a list where appropriate.
Make Create/Edit forms smart enough to allow you to supply an array where appropriate.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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