How to best create a RESTful API in Node.js [closed]

Answer 1

Take a look at Hapi its a configuration-centric framework for building web applications and APIs its used as restful service.

Other options are sails.js and actionhero

Answer 2

I recommend Baucis + Express. Thousands of users, model-driven design based on Mongoose, very flexible, spec-compliant, HATEOAS/Level 3 ready. Fits all my needs perfectly. But then, I'm the author :) https://github.com/wprl/baucis

Answer 3

Strapi is a new (2015) framework.

The admin interface on their website allows you to create an API and specify relationships between models. (As can be seen in their introduction video.)

However it is designed to run on the Koa server, not on Express.

Answer 4

I've been using Express to build my RESTful APIs on Node.js and with the addition of Router in Express 4, it's even easier to structure it. It's detailed here http://www.codekitchen.ca/guide-to-structuring-and-building-a-restful-api-using-express-4/

Answer 5

Have a look into this link

This project is build using the same project archutecture which is followed by ASP.Net WebApi 2.0. That means it will be having controllers, authentication mechanism etc. to start with. All you need to do is create your own controllers.

Answer 6

This is a sample to perform CRUD operations in a library system

var schema=require('../dbSchema');
var bookmodel=schema.model('book');

exports.getBooks = function (req,res) {
    bookmodel.find().exec().then((data)=>{
        res.send(data)
    }).catch((err)=>{
        console.log(err);
    });
};

exports.getBook = function (req,res) {
var bkName=req.params.Author;
bookmodel.find({Name:bkName}).exec().then((data)=>{
    res.send(data)
}).catch((err)=>{
    console.log(err);
});
};

exports.getAutBooks = function (req,res) {
    bookmodel.find({},'Author').then((data)=>{
        res.send(data);
    }).catch((err)=>{
    console.log(err);
    });
};

exports.deleteBooks=function(req,res){
    var bkName=req.params.name;
    bookmodel.remove({Name:bkName}).exec().then((data)=>{
        res.status(200);
        console.log(bkName);
    }).catch((err)=>{
        console.log(err);
    });
    };

exports.addBooks=function(req,res){
    var newBook=new bookmodel({
        Name:req.body.Name,
       ISBN:req.body.ISBN,
       Author:req.body.Author,
       Price:req.body.Price,
       Year:req.body.Year,
       Publisher:req.body.Publisher
    });
    newBook.save().then(()=>{
        res.status(201);
    }).catch((err)=>{
        console.log(err);
    });
};