start.md

Sample Nodejs restful API

initial environment

Verify if nodejs installed on the local environment or not:

node -v npm -v

If not, install it first

1. Getting to the node API folder and initial npm:

cd nodeapp

npm init

2. Install express & nodemon

npm i express

npm i -g nodemon

3. Open the package.json file and add this task to the script

"start": "nodemon server.js"

4. start server:

npm run start

Nodejs API server start on 8080

verify from postman

Get books:

URL:   http://localhost:8080/api/books/
Method: GET

Add book:

URL:   http://localhost:8080/api/books/
Method: POST
request body:
{"name":"mybook"}