contacts-api

Code examples for following post:

• Build a REST API with Express on Node.js and run it on Docker

Install

• Install Node.js
• Open cmd.exe and navigate to project's folder.
• Install project dependencies with following command

npm install

Run

Run project with following command

npm start

Functionalities

There are several functionalities implemented in the stub. See linked posts for more details how to use them.

Contacts

Database where you can add, get or remove contacts with JSON showing RESTful web services functionality described in blog post. GET endpoints are: http://localhost:3000/person/all, http://localhost:3000/person/get/{id}, http://localhost:3000/person/remove. POST endpoint is: http://localhost:3000/person/save.

Version

http://localhost:3000/api/version returns a configuration value that is read from external config file.

Build and run Docker container

Docker container is packaged with tag contact-rest with following command:

docker build . -t contact-rest

Docker container is run with exposing port 3000 from the container to port 9000 on host with following command:

docker run -e VERSION=1.1 -p 9000:3000 contact-rest