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Simple RESTful API Using Node, Express 4 and MongoDB

A simple RESTful API server which supports basic CRUD operations.

Prerequisites

node.js
npm package manager
cURL
git
MongoDB
docker

Installation

Clone this repository and install node modules

$ git clone https://github.com/ivanmarban/node-movies-restful.git
$ cd node-movies-restful
$ npm install

Modify config/config.js for your environment and start server

$ node server.js

Docker

Run mongodb container

$ docker run -d -ti --name movies-database mvertes/alpine-mongo

Run RESTful API container

$ docker run -d -ti -p 3000:3000 --name movies-back-end --link movies-database:db -e MONGODB_DB=movies -e MONGODB_HOST=db -e PORT=3000 ivanmarban/movies-back-end

Testing the API using cURL

Get all movies:

$ curl -i -X GET http://localhost:3000/api/v1/movies

Get movie with _id value of 5514677bda31962c1189aa23

$ curl -i -X GET http://localhost:3000/api/v1/movie/5514677bda31962c1189aa23

Delete movie with _id value of 5514677bda31962c1189aa23

$ curl -i -X DELETE http://localhost:3000/api/v1/movie/5514677bda31962c1189aa23

Add new movie

$ curl -i -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"title": "2001: A Space Odyssey","year": "1968","rated": "G","runtime": "160 min","genre": "Mystery, Sci-Fi","director": "Stanley Kubrick"}' http://localhost:3000/api/v1/movie

Modify movie with _id value of 5514677bda31962c1189aa23

$ curl -i -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"title": "2001: A Space Odyssey","year": "1968","rated": "G","runtime": "160 min","genre": "Sci-Fi","director": "Stanley Kubrick"}' http://localhost:3000/api/v1/movie

REST API

URL	HTTP Verb	POST Body	Result
/api/v1/movies	GET	empty	Return all movies
/api/v1/movie	POST	JSON string	New movie created
/api/v1/movie/:id	GET	empty	Return single movie
/api/v1/movie/:id	PUT	JSON string	Updates an existing movie
/api/v1/movie/:id	DELETE	empty	Deletes existing keyword

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