Simple CRUD REST API with Node.js and Express 📝🚀

This is a simple CRUD REST API built with Node.js and Express. It uses an in-memory array to store data, so it will not persist data after the server is stopped. It is intended to be used as a starting point for learning how to build a REST API with Node.js and Express. 💻📚

Built With 🛠️

• Node.js - JavaScript runtime
• Express - Web framework for Node.js
• Nodemon - Utility to monitor for changes and automatically restart the server

Endpoints 🛣️

• GET all data 📄 : GET /
• GET data by ID 🔎 : GET /:id
• POST new data ✍️ : POST /
• PUT update data by ID ✏️ : PUT /:id
• DELETE data by ID 🗑️ : DELETE /:id

Data Structure 📊

The data is stored as an array of objects, where each object represents a book. Each book has the following properties:

• id (integer): a unique identifier for the book
• title (string): the title of the book
• author (string): the author of the book
• genre (string): the genre of the book

How to Run 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

1. Install dependencies: npm install
2. Run the server: npm start
3. Make requests to http://localhost:3000

How to Use 🤔

If your using vscode, you can use the Thunder Client extension to make requests to the API. You can also use Postman.

GET all data 📄

Make a GET request to http://localhost:3000 to get all data.

GET data by ID 🔎

Make a GET request to http://localhost:3000/:id to get data by ID.

POST new data ✍️

Make a POST request to http://localhost:3000 with the following JSON data in the request body to create a new data entry:

{
  "title": "string",
  "author": "string",
  "genre": "string"
}

PUT update data by ID ✏️

Make a PUT request to http://localhost:3000/:id with the following JSON data in the request body to update data by ID:

{
  "title": "string",
  "author": "string",
  "genre": "string"
}

DELETE data by ID 🗑️

Make a DELETE request to http://localhost:3000/:id to delete data by ID.

Author 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Saurav Hathi

License 📄

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details