muckbuck / apitest

Messing around with node, express and mongoDB

README

Version 0.0.1

How do I get set up?

• The site can be viewed at: localhost:3000
• The only maps that you will have to work with are: views, routes and models

Clone the repo

git clone https://<YourUsername>@bitbucket.org/muckbuck/gback.git

Download nodemon

npm install nodemon --save

Start the app by typing:

nodemon app

A quick guide to requesting data as a client

Examples of different endpoints

• To get all products /api/product

• To get a product /api/product?name=nameOfProduct

• To get a paragraph /api/paragraph?title=titleOfParagraph

• To get posts from facebook /api/fbposts

• To get posts from facebook with a limit(default is 25) /api/fbposts?limit=X

How to make a request from the client

$.ajax({
  url: localhost/api/{{The endpoint to which you want to send your request}},
  dataType: json,
  success: function(json){return json},
  error: function(error){return error}
});