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Module 5 - Express and Mongo API

Basic Express backend REST application, with Mongo DB backend.

Setup

1. Initialize project
2. Install express
3. Create index.js
4. Add routes: add a '/' hello world route, and set the app to listen on port 3000
5. Add a "start" script to package.json
6. Start your server: npm start
7. Use Postman or curl to test your API route.

Sections

• 5.1 - Initialize Express app
• 5.2 - Add bodyParser and cors
• 5.3 - Add GET ALL blogs route
• 5.4 - Add GET blog, POST blog route
• 5.5 - Add blog data methods, convert project to ES6 modules
• 5.6 - Add UPDATE blog route
• 5.7 - Break out blogs data functions
• 5.8 - Add Nodemon, dotenv
• 5.9 - Move /blogs to new router
• 5.10 - Add /users routes
• 5.11 - Add logging middleware with Morgan
• 5.12 - Add MongoDB connection
• 5.13 - Add User and Blog models
• 5.14 - Break out dbconn to file
• 5.15 - Implementing the Mongo connections to api endpoints
• 5.16 - Add seedDb script