json-api-express

Demo app built with Express, Mongoose to demonstrate a fully working JSON API implementation.

It is a work in progress. Some features need to be implement to have a complete working example API. Some missing features : Errors, Payload validation, etc...

Feel free to contribute to build a fully working JSON API example.

Installation

1. git clone https://github.com/danivek/json-api-express.git
2. npm install
3. npm start
4. Browse http://localhost:8080/docs

Usage

This is a sample app modeling a blog with articles, author, comments, tags, etc...

Try some endpoints :

• http://localhost:8080/articles
• http://localhost:8080/articles?page[offset]=1&page[limit]=1
• http://localhost:8080/articles?page[number]=1&page[size]=1
• http://localhost:8080/articles?include=author,comments.author&fields[article]=title,body&fields[people]=name
• http://localhost:8080/peoples
• http://localhost:8080/comments
• http://localhost:8080/tags
• ...

Or explore api endpoints with swagger-ui at : http://localhost:8080/docs

Features

• Sparse Fieldsets
• Sorting
• Pagination
• Inclusion
• Links
• And more...

Prerequisites

• MongoDB - Download and Install MongoDB - you'll need mongoDB to be installed and have the mongod process running.
• Node.js 4+ or above