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

Answer 1

I'm surprised no-one mentioned Nodal.

From the website:

Nodal is a web server for Node.js, optimized for building API services quickly and efficiently.

Boasting its own opinionated, explicit, idiomatic and highly-extensible framework, Nodal takes care of all of the hard decisions for you and your team. This allows you to focus on creating an effective product in a short timespan while minimizing technical debt

It's actively maintained, has 3800+ stars on Github (at the time of writing), has a command-line tool built-in to generate boilerplate code, and overall gets the job done quickly.

Answer 2

Strongloop Loopback seeems to be another good alternative for generating Node/MongoDB APIs. It can also generate mocha tests too.

Answer 3

Here is the issues about the frameworks nowadays.

When you come here from google searching "best", "fastest" framework blah, blah, people will drop a line says "Hey, you should try this sails.js, feathers, Derby etc..."

Ok The question is: - Are you just for fun with those frameworks - if yes, you can easily get a list of frameworks and then start to benchmark them whatsoever.

• I am assuming most of people are "I want to build a product, build a site can make money in the future, or at least it will become popular";

Ok, all you search keywords and attentions here is wrong, try to search "production ready", "enterprise ready", "case study" those keywords then, or maybe go to indeed.com and search node.js, further dig out what node.js framework most companies using, the answer maybe just simply say "express".

if so, From node.js stack, The frameworks will pretty much be narrowed down a few of them: Hapi, Strongloop, or even not popular one Mojito from Yahoo

For Those frameworks at least you can tell - "They are really production or enterprise ready" - cos' they have been using form Walmart, from Yahoo, from other big giants from some time, some even for couple of years.

Can this explain why Ruby on rails and Django still dominate the full stack framework markets? even you see lots of "cool" frameworks keeping on coming to the market, Meteor, Sails.js, Go's Revel, Java's Play Spark whatever you can name - It doesn't mean these frameworks worse than the two, just mean they need time to win the market.

Another problems lots of the current frameworks are a kind of all-in-one, clone of "Ror"; From the end user's prospect, They just need a thing to help them get things done, need productive, need something to work from the begin to the end, like Ruby on Rails, like MacOS, like windows, like anything itself which has been tested by the time, has been daily used by people.

Answer 4

    var mongoose        = require('../DBSchema/SchemaMapper');
    var UserSchema      = mongoose.model('User');

    var UserController = function(){
        this.insert = (data) => {
            return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
                var user = new UserSchema({
                    userName: data.userName,
                    password: data.password
                });
                user.save().then(() => {
                    resolve({status: 200, message: "Added new user"});
                }).catch(err => {
                    reject({status: 500, message: "Error:- "+err});
                })
            })

        }

        this.update = (id, data) => {
            return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
                UserSchema.update({_id: id}, data).then(() => {
                    resolve({status: 200, message: "update user"});
                }).catch(err => {
                    reject({status: 500, message: "Error:- " + err});
                })
            })
        }

        this.searchAll = () => {
            return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
                UserSchema.find().exec().then((data) => {
                    resolve({status: 200, data: data});
                }).catch(err => {
                    reject({status: 500, message: "Error:- " + err});
                })
            })
        }

        this.search = (id) => {
            return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
                UserSchema.find({_id:id}).exec().then(user => {
                    resolve({status: 200, data: user});
                }).catch(err => {
                    reject({status: 500, message: "Error:- " + err});
                })
            })
        }

        this.delete = (id) => {
            return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
                UserSchema.remove({_id:id}).then(() => {
                    resolve({status: 200, message: "remove user"});
                }).catch(err => {
                    reject({status: 500, message:"Error:- " + err});
                })
            })
        }
    }

    module.exports = new UserController();

    ///Route
    var express     = require('express');
    var router      = express.Router();
    var Controller  = require('./User.Controller');



    router.post('/', (req, res) => {
        Controller.insert(req.body).then(data => {
            res.status(data.status).send({message: data.message});
        }).catch(err => {
            res.status(err.status).send({message: err.message});
        })
    });

    router.put('/:id', (req, res) => {
        Controller.update(req.params.id, req.body).then(data => {
            res.status(data.status).send({message: data.message});
        }).catch(err => {
            res.status(err.status).send({message: err.message});
        })
    });

    router.get('/', (req, res) => {
        Controller.searchAll().then(data => {
            res.status(data.status).send({data: data.data});
        }).catch(err => {
            res.status(err.status).send({message: err.message});
        });
    });

    router.get('/:id', (req, res) => {
        Controller.search(req.params.id).then(data => {
            res.status(data.status).send({data: data.data});
        }).catch(err => {
            res.status(err.status).send({message: err.message});
        });
    });

    router.delete('/:id', (req, res) => {
        Controller.delete(req.params.id).then(data => {
            res.status(data.status).send({message: data.message});
        }).catch(err => {
            res.status(err.status).send({message: err.message});
        })
    })

    module.exports = router;

//db`enter code here`schema

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Schema = mongoose.Schema;

var Supplier =new Schema({

    itemId:{
        type:String,
        required:true
    },
    brand:{
        type:String,
        required:true
    },
    pno:{
        type:String,
        required:true
    },   
    email:{
        type:String,
        required:true
    }    

});

mongoose.model('Inventory',Inventory);
mongoose.model('Supplier',Supplier);

mongoose.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/LAB', function (err) {
    if (err) {
        console.log(err);
        process.exit(-1);
    }
    console.log("Connected to the db");
});
module.exports = mongoose;

Answer 5

You should look into restify

If you want to use express, you can also check out this project that I made -- called node-restful.

This library seems to be much more mature and have more features though: https://github.com/jspears/mers

Answer 6

Check this out:

With Feathers you can build prototypes in minutes and production ready real-time backends and REST APIs in days. Seriously.