With Juneteenth around the corner I decided to deploy a easy project that could help spread Black Excellence has a front-end built with VueJS and communicates with a NodeJS / Express back-end interfacing with a MongoDB database.
ExpressJs simply put, it's a web framework for Node.Js - stolen from the official docs. Taylor Otwell (Laravel's creator) once said, "Developers build tools for developers". ExpressJs was built for developers to simplify Node APIs.
MongoDB is a NoSQL database. It's completely document-oriented. A NoSQL database allows you to store data in the form of JSON and any formats. If you want to learn more about MongoDB, please checkout their docs.
Vue.js lets you extend HTML with HTML attributes called directives. Vue.js directives offers functionality to HTML applications, Vue.js provides built-in directives and user defined directives.
I decided to create a MEVN stack (Vue.js + Node.js + Express + MongoDB) example with a CRUD Application. The back-end server uses Node.js + Express for REST APIs, front-end side is a Vue client with Vue Router and axios. The API allows you to save articles to MongoDB by clicking the earth icon (on the right of the articles).
Go to the terminal (after cloning project) and cd to the root of news-api and run:
[npm start] then, the browser should render at http://localhost:3000/