crashposition / worthingdigital

Meetup API with Node.js and Express.js

Goal

Create a sample app using Node.js and Express.js to integrate the Meetup API. I wanted to be able to pull data from a Meetup group profile and display it via a Handlebars template.

Notes and Thoughts

• I wanted to use existing libraries that help integrate the Meetup API with Node. I decided to use the npm module meetup-api. I also tested these endpoints using basic http requests and everything worked fine.

• I used the basic API Key authentication method for making requests to the Meetup API. They also have ways to authenticate with oAuth 1 and 2. The meetup-api module handles all 3 authentication methods which is nice.

• Project generated using express generator.

• Overall very easy to use and well documented.

Running sample project

1. git clone
2. npm install
3. Rename .env-example to .env and populate environment variables with group data
4. npm start