Node REST API

REST API for mobile applications using Node.js and Express.js framework with Mongoose.js for working with MongoDB. For access control this project use OAuth 2.0, with the help of OAuth2orize and Passport.js.

This is updated code that follows RESTful API With Node.js + MongoDB article.

Running project

You need to have installed Node.js and MongoDB

Install dependencies

To install dependencies enter project folder and run following command:

npm install

Creating demo data

To create demo data in your MongoDB execute generateData.js file

node generateData.js

Run server

To run server execute:

node bin/www 

Make Requests

Creating and refreshing access tokens:

http POST http://182.61.32.78:1337/api/oauth/token grant_type=password client_id=android client_secret=SomeRandomCharsAndNumbers username=myapi password=abc1234
http POST http://182.61.32.78:1337/api/oauth/token grant_type=refresh_token client_id=android client_secret=SomeRandomCharsAndNumbers refresh_token=9dc67d527cb3ed61cd35a43e9aa4bacf33369bb5bbf744fd3f7ed436c4b97224

refresh token is used to find the access token

Creating your article data:

http POST http://182.61.32.78:1337/api/articles title=NewArticle author='John Doe' description='Lorem ipsum dolar sit amet' images:='[{"kind":"thumbnail", "url":"http://habrahabr.ru/images/write-topic.png"}, {"kind":"detail", "url":"http://habrahabr.ru/images/write-topic.png"}]' Authorization:'Bearer f7c150cf7776029d8edb42580fc3b6433a30af605347fc188f79c7af147d135b'

Updating your article data:

http PUT http://182.61.32.78:1337/api/articles/YOUR_ARTICLE_ID_HERE title=NewArticleUpdated author='John Doe' description='Lorem ipsum dolar sit amet' images:='[{"kind":"thumbnail", "url":"http://habrahabr.ru/images/write-topic.png"}, {"kind":"detail", "url":"http://habrahabr.ru/images/write-topic.png"}]' Authorization:'Bearer dfed40f44806472331bf367be499512df07c81456516fa760153b68c9498564a'

Getting your data

http http://182.61.32.78:1337/api/users/info Authorization:'Bearer f7c150cf7776029d8edb42580fc3b6433a30af605347fc188f79c7af147d135b'
http http://182.61.32.78:1337/api/articles Authorization:'Bearer f7c150cf7776029d8edb42580fc3b6433a30af605347fc188f79c7af147d135b'

Modules used

Some of non standard modules used:

• express
• mongoose
• nconf
• winston
• faker
• oauth2orize
• passport

Tools used

httpie - command line HTTP client

JSHint

For running JSHint

sudo npm install jshint -g
jshint libs/**/*.js generateData.js

Author

This example was created by Evgeny Aleksandrov (@EAleksandrov).

Updated by:

• Istock Jared
• Marko Arsić

License

MIT

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