jplew/mongodb-firebase-api

Basic REST API built with Node.js, Express, Firebase Functions, MongoDB and Typescript

REST API built with Typescript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose

This is a simple API which performs all basic CRUD operations on a Atlas-hosted MongoDB. The DB is a collection of "Location" documents with the following fields:

• Location Name
• Description
• Latitude
• Longitude

This backend is consumed by the following frontend client:

• Live site: https://mongodb-angular-app.web.app
• Github Repo: https://github.com/jplew/mongodb-firebase-app

API used to be hosted on Firebase, currently using Fly.

API Features

• Full CRUD functionality

  • GET

    • Get all: https://crudapp.fly.dev/places

      • can be sorted ascending or descending with "sort" flag:
        • ascending: https://crudapp.fly.dev/places?sort=asc
        • descending: https://crudapp.fly.dev/places?sort=desc

    • Get single location: https://crudapp.fly.dev/places/[location]

  • POST & PUT

    • https://crudapp.fly.dev/places/[location]
      • By default, params are sent via the request body
      • Params can be also be sent in the url like so: https://crudapp.fly.dev/places/[location]?locationName=Victoria?latitude=12.4444?longitude=-120.55555?description=lots%20of%20people

  • DELETE

    • https://crudapp.fly.dev/places/[location]

• Written in Typescript

• Deployed to Google Cloud Functions

• Uses Mongoose as DRM

• Does not use authentication for purposes of demonstration