Mean Stack App Sample — The backend (I)
Let´s start some test over the repo:
Running the sample
$ git clone https://github.com/DavideViolante/Angular2-Full-Stack.git
$ mongod — dbpath /usr/local/var/data/db/
Compile with
The backend is the server
$ npm install
and run with the server side with
$ npm run be
the same that:
$ nodemon src/server/app.js
Let´s test the server side: the cat´s database is empty
in deed, it is empty
Let´s insert two cats “Felix” and “Garfiel” to the database
and we can recover it from the API REST:
Let´s recover all cats:
http://localhost:3000/cat/58ae225ed2f8d65bce07f946
Standalone Server App
Let´s run an Standalone server App just for the backend:
$ npm init
Next, I will add basic dependences:
$ npm install express
$ npm install body-parser
$ npm install mongoose
The — save and — save-dev install flags also add entry to package.json
$ npm install <package_name> --saveexample $ npm install mongoose --save
$ npm install express --save
$ npm install body-parser --save --save-dev$ npm install morgan --save --save-dev
note: “morgan” a log lib it is not necessary for the sample
Ok, we have installed the most basic libraries for the backend, all of three are in the node_mongo dir with their dependences. We can observe two thins: the installation is local to the project, and If we run the command again, npm don´t bring only the dependences that are missing.
we can see that we
Let´s run again but with the — save and — save-dev options
And we can see also how the package.json is modified
Let´s edit a simple app.js (Copy&Paste from the server full stack proyect)
And server standalone is running
A little comment about nodemon
nodemon monitors for any changes in our node.js application and automatically restart the server, so, it is common to use nodemon instead node:
Let’s install it:
Let´s run it
Reload:
Ok! we could see how the api is reloaded when the node js file is modified
Can I combine the API with swagger or with Looback?
I will explore it later, but I have found a very good post on https://blog.risingstack.com/swagger-nodejs/ that also talk about swagger with docker
Also I remember that I went to a tech event where they suggested to explore Strongloop with Loopback
This is a good post about Looback
https://strongloop.com/strongblog/compare-express-restify-hapi-loopback/
In my personal and humble opinion, Loopback looks easier than swagger to integrate to node.js projects, so I will make just a test only with it
Loopback with Node.JS
That´s will be a next post, but by the way I will stop the post there….
