Building JSON Api with Node and Mongo

This is a simple demonstrate how to build api using Node and Mongo. In this I will be building A simple todo api.

Defining Routes

• GET /api/todos List All Todos
• POST api/todos Create New Todo
• GET api/todos/todoId Retrieve a Todo
• UPDATE api/todos/todoId Update Todo
• DELETE api/todos/todoId Delete a Todo

MongoDB Schema (Structing Todo Data)

• name (type:string)
• complete (type:Boolean)
• createdDate (type:Date)

Getting Started with installation

• Make sure we have node installed.
• run npm init this will initialize.It contains meta data of our project
• install express js using npm install express.
• create a main file touch index.js.
• set up express in the file
• everything else will be in the index.js file