express-rest

A basic example of a rest API using Node and Express.js (ES6 latest).

This repo uses minimal amount of dependencies, all build scripts written with NPM Scripts, no Gulp or Webpack needed.

To run in dev mode

npm install
npm run dev
open browser on port 5001

To run tests

npm test
test will be run on port 5002

Setting up database

Install MongoDB from here
Create a C:/data/db folder
Add Mongo folder to PATH
Run mongod
Run mongo
Execute content from booksData.js inside mongo shell