Workshop 3 - Create an API (ExpressJS)

🌟 Goal

Build a REST API with ExpressJS

👷 Prerequisites

1. Fork this repository then clone it on your computer
2. install Insomnia (or your API Testing tool of choice)
3. Paste your .env file from workshop2 containing credentials to your Mongo Database

🗒 What to do

⚠ Commit your changes after each instruction, following the commit message format:

feat(1): Initiate NPM Project

1. Install existing packages with npm install

    npm install

2. Add NPM packages express

   Mongoose is a package making mongo request easier and more secure

   npm install --save express

3. Put your database credentials in a file named .env (from Workshop2)
4. Take a look at the architecture

   One Folder per entity. In each folder, 3 files:

   entity.controller.js -> Presentation Layer, API

   entity.service.js -> Business Logic Layer

   entity.model.js -> Database Layer

5. Implement a "Hello World" route, on GET / that returns "Hello World"
   1. Visit the route at http://localhost:3000/
6. Create the API CRUD for Location
   1. Create routes at Presentation Layer
   2. Implement business logic in the Location Service

   For reference, CRUD:
   Create: /locations
   Update: /locations/:id
   Request (Get All: /locations , Get One: /locations/:id)
   Delete: /locations/:id