NodeJS_Blog_RestAPI

CRUD API using NodeJS, Experss, MongoDB

About

This Repo is for beginners of NodeJS who wants to make a full API service. This repo has a good folder structure. Joi for validation of incoming data. Passport for encrypting passwords.

Prerequisites

Following are the softwares requried to get this api up and running.

Node.js - Chrome's V8 Javascript Engine
MongoDB - NoSQL Database

Installing

Getting the configuration ready
Copy the .env.example file at the same location and save as .env
```
cp .env.example .env
```
Create account on MongoDB Atlas and paste the database URL in .env file
Create account on Sentry and paste the Sentry DNS into .env file (Only for production to get emails about errors)
Install the packages mentioned in package.json file for getting all dependencies of the project.
```
npm install --save
```
Starting the application
```
npm start
```

Testing

Import the file Blog.postman_collection_v2.json into postman for testing API endpoints.

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