Todo API Single-page app with RESTful routing

Technologies used:

• jQuery for front-end code and ajax calls
• Express for server code
• MongoDB for database and Mongoose to connect with express

API Created using nodeJS and express package Used REST architectural structure Recap:

• use node Modules to reduce clutter on the main app.js
• use express’s Router function to store routes
• remember to use body-parser if req.params is required
• remember to add express.static when adding in modules from another directory
• common directories: Models( for mongoose/mongo schema ), public( for front-end code ),
routes ( for Router ), views ( for html pages ).
• remember to require packages/modules that you need in each node file
• models’ index.js is used by default when requiring the module
• {mongoose.Promise = Promise} to use promises in mongoose

Front-End Used jQuery javascript library Wrote ajax calls with jQuery Recap:

• document.ready() when using jQuery, for async codes that won’t block DOM building
• Remember, when creating elements, event listeners won’t work on newly created
elements after DOM building, thus need to work around, using the following example:
 $(".list").on("click", "li", callBackFunction)
• Good to create functions to prevent re-writing chunks of code
• $(this) jQuery object

Need to read up more on: express, mongo and mongoose documentations CSS DOM and the event loop jQuery’s documentations node’s documentations