README.md

movie-rest-api

Creating REST API for movie using Node.js express framework.

How to start the app

• Create folder config in the root directory
• Add file database.js inside the config directory
• In the database.js file, add the url of the mongoose database connection similar as below (replace username, password and database name)

const DATABASECONNECTION = "mongodb+srv://<username:password>@cluster0.atx9j.mongodb.net/<database-name>?retryWrites=true&w=majority"

module.exports = { DATABASECONNECTION }

• Run npm install and npm start or use npm run dev (to start with nodemon)

Start with docker

• Build docker image: docker build --tag name-of-the-app .
• Run the app with docker: docker run -it -p 3000:3000 name-of-the-app (map the available port in local machine to docker machine: 3000:3000)

When the server is up

• Navigate to your browser and go to: http://localhost:3000/api-docs to see the API document

Test the application

• Run npm test

Note

• In the project folder, there is movie collection ready to import to the MongoDB database
• Also, Postman collection