README.md

API Design

Using express and mongodb

Steps to run the application

1. Start mongodb
2. Run yarn start This starts the API

Running mongodb local to this project

1. Create a db directory in this project.
2. Change directory to that cd db
3. Run command mongod --dbpath .
4. This starts the mongodb within the db directory

Misc commands

1. Check if mongo is running ps aux | grep -v grep | grep mongod
2. Install mongodb community version using brew i.e brew install mongodb-community
3. Stop mongodb community version if started globally brew services stop mongodb-community
4. Start mongodb community version brew services start mongodb-community