NodeJS and MongoDB Boilerplate

This is designed for someone who needs a simple backend API to take HTTP request and interact with MongoDB using Mongoose

Much Source Code from: https://github.com/uwmadisonieee/Server-And-Database-Workshop

How to run

1. Open terminal and cd to the directory
2. run npm install
3. make sure your mongod is up and running or it will crash on startup
4. run node server.js

If you get something like failed to connect to server [127.0.0.1:27017] on first connect [MongoError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017] then good change your MongoDB Daemon is not up and running.

How to use

If you have an application you just need to point it to the URL of this machine and add the port.

Example: http://localhost:8000

Postman is a tool used to call HTTP Request and see the response. This will be used to test that our server is correctly handling all various HTTP Request.