node-express-boilerplate VS RESTful-api-testing

Try boilerplate https://github.com/hagopj13/node-express-boilerplate

Here’s a pretty good example of a production API built with Express. https://github.com/hagopj13/node-express-boilerplate

The Express Boiler Plate Project Sets it to true

This repo has a decent starter project with a good middleware setup and a decent way of structuring the project, but no typescript.

Throughout the two previous parts, we've learned how to setup a very basic RESTful API from scratch, and tested this API locally in a very simple example. In this post, we're going to integrate this API with MongoDB Atlas, and use mongoose to manipulate our database collection by fetching, editing, and deleting some data. Fist step is to open your project with your favorite code editor (VS code in my case). You can download the source code from the previous part by cloning/downloading this repo. Or Download Full project by cloning/downloading this repo.

Throughout the example above, we've tested our API locally by manually creating msgs array (simulating a database model), and fetching its items using our API. Of course this isn't anywhere near complete, but it's just a simple starting way for beginners to understand how an API works in general. Click here for source code of this blog-post. Throughout the next blog post, I'm going to connect this API with a database (MongoDB) and use other http methods (PUT, POST, DELETE) to modify my database collection.