The Complete Guide To Building A REST API With Node, Express, TypeScript & MongoDB

This is a repository for a REST API tutorial using Node, Express, Typescript & MongoDB.

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Features:

• Environment, Typescript, Nodemon setup
• MongoDB & Mongoose connect, Database creation
• Controllers creation
• Middlewares creation
• Cookie based authentication
• Postman testing
• Create, Read, Update

Prerequisites

Node version 14.x

Cloning the repository

git clone https://github.com/AntonioErdeljac/ts-node-mongo-rest-api-tutorial.git

Install packages

npm i

Setup MongoDB URL

In src/index.ts:

const MONGO_URL = ''; // DB URI

Start the app

npm start

Available commands

Running commands with npm npm run [command]

command	description
start	Starts a development instance of the app