By Francis Onukwu
This is a backend project built using TypeScript for a NodeJS server and a MongoDb powered database. To get this running on your machine, you must first download and install NodeJs, clone this repository by running
git clone https://github.com/onfranciis/hngx-stage2, navigate to the hngx-stage2 folder in your terminal and running npm install. Once all the dependencies have been installed you should create a .env file and fill it with these details
PORT = "1234"
DEV_DB_URL = <A valid MongoDb Url>
ENVIRONMENT = "development"
You can get a free MongoDb Url from Atlas. Now in your terminal, run npm run serve and if successfull, you should see ... development server has started on port 1234. Now head over to http://localhost:1234 on your browser and if everything is successfull, you should see this
{
connected:true
}
The API documentation can be found here