NodeJS MCS

Node architecture as Model-Controller-Service (MCS)

How to install

To install dependencies run npm install. The dependencies used in this project are:

• express
• body-parser
• mongoose

MongoDB database

This project need a MongoDB instance running. You can set the port, user and password in the configuration file placed at config/develop.json.

If you will need a user name and password to connect to the database, set the flag security of database object to true, and set the user name and password. All this in the config file.

{
  "database": {
    "products": {
      "host": "localhost",
      "port": "27017",
      "name": "node_mcs_products",
      "security": true,
      "user": "user_name",
      "password": "super_password"
    }
  }
}

Testing the app

There's only one service created called /products, you can run it via postman as localhost:3000/products. The HTTP verbs available are:

• POST
• GET
• GET/:id
• PUT/:id
• DELETE/:id

The body for POST and PUT methods have to be sent as application/json content type and expected the next format:

{
	"name": "Product Name",
	"price": 1
}