Node CRUD

CRUD App with Node and MongoDB

What you will see here

• Handle CRUD in Node
• How to use MongoDB in Node
• Handle Node validation and messages

What is used here

• Node
• Express
• MongoDB
• Mongoose

Getting started

• Download and install NodeJS
• Clone this repository
• In the root folder, run: npm install

For MongoDB

• Create an account on mlab.com
• Create a database
• Create a database user/pass
• Get the connection string
• Rename the .env.example file (located in the root folder) to .env
• Paste mongodb connection string in .env file

Run:

• Start the server, run: node server.js (if you are developing, you can use nodemon instead for watching file changes. Install nodemon, run: npm install -g nodemon) and start the server, run: nodemon server.js
• On your browser: localhost:8989