nilportugues / rest-hapi

A RESTful API generator for Node.js

A RESTful API generator

rest-hapi is a hapi plugin that generates RESTful API endpoints based on mongoose schemas. It provides a powerful combination of relational structure with NoSQL flexibility. You define your data models and the rest is done for you. Have your API up and running in minutes!

Features

• Automatic generation of CRUD and association endpoints with middleware support
• joi validation
• Route-level and document-level authorization
• Swagger docs for all generated endpoints
• Query parameter support for searching, sorting, filtering, pagination, and embedding of associated models
• Endpoint activity history through Audit Logs
• Support for policies via mrhorse
• Duplicate fields
• Support for "soft" delete
• Optional metadata for documents
• Mongoose wrapper methods
• ...and more!

Live demo

View the swagger docs for the live demo:

https://demo.resthapi.com

Or, for a more complete example, check out the appy api:

https://api.appyapp.io

Documentation

Check out the docs on the official site!

Requirements

You need Node.js installed and you'll need MongoDB installed and running.

Quick Start

1. Clone the demo repo

$ git clone https://github.com/JKHeadley/rest-hapi-demo.git
$ cd rest-hapi-demo

2. Install the dependencies

$ npm install

3. Seed the models

$ ./node_modules/.bin/rest-hapi-cli seed

4. Start the server

$ npm start

5. View the API docs at

http://localhost:8080/

...have fun!

Example Projects

appy: A boilerplate web app.

rest-hapi-demo: A simple demo project implementing rest-hapi in a hapi server.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to rest-hapi! These are the many ways you can help:

• Submit patches and features
• Improve the documentation and website
• Report bugs
• Follow us on Twitter
• Participate in the gitter community
• And donate financially!

Please read our contribution guide to get started. Also note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct, please make sure to review and follow it.

Contributors

Thanks goes to each one of our contributors! 🙏

Become a contributor.

Backers

Support us with a monthly donation and help us continue our activities! Become a backer.

Questions?

If you have any questions/issues/feature requests, please feel free to open an issue. We'd love to hear from you!

Support

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License

rest-hapi is licensed under a MIT License.