Node-Express App with REST API(Basic Shopping cart)

Building this project

• Open terminal and clone this repository using using git clone https://github.com/DirectriX01/restAPI-node-app.git
  • Running the Backend
    • Navigate into the folder using cd ./restAPI-node-app
    • You're on master branch by default, run npm install to install the backend dependencies
    • Run the server using npm start ❗ You must change the mongoDB url in app.js and set it to your own mongoDB databaseURL
  • Running the frontend
    • Open a new window of your terminal/IDE and navigate into the same folder.
    • Run git checkout frontendFiles to change the branch to frontendFiles.
    • Install the dependencies using npm build. Note this will take time since dependencies of React-App are huge
    • After installing, run the frontend live using npm start

Description of the Project

• The backend is built using Node.js framework along with express routers.
• The REST-API is implemented along the lines of MVC Model.
• mongoDB is used for storing data. However for performing database level interactions we use mongoose which is a library built to perform mongoDB documents operations easily.