Express API

An express API linked to an NoSQL (mongodb) database

Running

1. First install dependencies with npm install

2. To run the app do npm start

To run the tests do npm test

Frameworks

• express
• mongoose (mongodb)
• express-mongo-sanitize
• Testing: vscode REST client extension

CI endpoint testing:

• Jest
• Supertest

Hours

Building: 4 Hours

Endpoint Testing: 3 hours

Issues + notes

Since I've been mostly working with mobile-firebase and with frontend, I had to refresh my memory on backend things + this is my first time making a REST API connected to a database. My experience with fullstack was mostly with firebase and django (which loosely follows a MVC model with most of the unlying (low-level) SQL queries abstracted away).

• First time making an API connected to a database
• First time using mongodb in JavaScript/TypeScript
• First time sanitizing in express -> decided to use express-mongo-sanitize
• First time doing REST endpoint testing

Bugs:

Set headers after they are sent to the client warning

Endpoint tests not all passing