Instantly Generate Rest & GraphQL APIs 🔥

Install

npm i -g sugar-generate

Prereqs

have mongodb installed and running!
have nodejs installed

if you're running mongodb locally and using the docker container, make sure to start mongo using

sudo mongod --bind_ip_all

otherwise you wont be able to connect to mongo from docker.

Getting Started

Create your schema. It could be as simple as:

{
  "schema": {
    "name": {
      "type": "String",
      "default": ""
    },
    "isDead": {
      "type": "Boolean",
      "default": false
    },
    "age": {
      "type": "Number",
      "default": false
    }
  },
  "statics": {}
}

You can also provide multiple schemas like the following

[
  {
    "name": "user",
    "schema": {
      "name": {
        "type": "String",
        "default": ""
      },
      "email": {
        "type": "String",
        "trim": true,
        "required": true,
        "unique": true,
        "immutable": true
      },
      "intro": {
        "type": "Boolean",
        "default": false
      },
      "sub": {
        "one": {
          "type": "String",
          "trim": true,
          "required": true
        },
        "two": {
          "type": "String",
          "required": true
        },
        "three": {
          "type": "Number"
        }
      },
      "role": {
        "type": "String",
        "enum": ["user", "maker"],
        "default": "user"
      }
    },
    "statics": {
      "statuses": ["created", "under_review", "listed", "deleted"],
      "status": {
        "active": "active",
        "inactive": "inactive",
        "deleted": "deleted"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "team",
    "schema": {
      "name": {
        "type": "String",
        "default": ""
      },
      "users": {
        "type": "ObjectId",
        "ref": "Users"
      }
    }
  }
]

save this to monkey.json

generate your api

sugar-generate \
--schema ./monkey.json \
--destination ./my-monkeys

or the short version

sugar-generate \
-s ./monkey.json \
-d ./my-monkeys

Note this is slightly different than previous versions. The schemas require a name now.

Run or build the docker container and visit http://localhost:3000

cd /my-monkeys
npm i
npm start
# Or build the docker container!
docker build -t myMonkeys:0.1.0 .

Features 🙉

Generates simple Nodejs code
Graphql and Rest out of the box
Uses Mongodb with Mongoose ORM
Easy to build / deploy
Dockerfile included
supports multiple schemas
Generates CRUD APIs
- create
- get (many, with pagination; supports search, sort, filter, pagination out of the box)
- getOne
- update
- delete
Generates GraphQL apis for both query and mutation

What it's good at 🙊

Generating an initial API
Microservice oriented
Ready to deploy (build with docker => deploy)

What it's not good at (yet) 🙈

idempotent changes (i.e. it doesn't know if you wrote code in there or changed things around)
working with modified code
populating table joins
custom actions inside controller functions

TODO

API

~~basic generator rest tests~~
graphql tests
other databases?
your ideas?
middleware for auth, token validation, etc.

Graphql support

graphql is supported and gets created by default so you can choose between rest and graphql

Graphql is on http://localhost:3000/graphql

Generated project structure

.
├── configs                 # Config File
├── connection              # DB Connections (mongo, redis)
├── controller              # Controllers
│   ├── <model name>        # Functions (one file, one function) create, delete, update, get, getOne
├── models                  # DB Models
├── router                  # Endpoint Routes
├── tests                   # Single Test File