Simple Restful API (Only Endpoints) with Node.js, MongoDB and Fastify

This a Simple Restful API Template Project that you can use as a reference to learn the basics of Restful API Development with a different framework than ExpressJS in this case using Fastify to mount a web service

This is not a Course but i will expose some useful information if you want to build and test this project with your own MongoDB database

Preview of this project on render

I've deployed this app previously on render, you can open this links to see the code in action

Important

If you notice there is delay on the reply, please wait the free web service on render may shutdown the server when there is no use

• GET ALL
• GET Hola Mundo desde MongoDB :)
• You need an API key to test POST, PUT AND DELETE, so test this locally please

Warning

I'm assuming you have a MongoDB database already mounted locally or you have a MongoDB Atlas Cluster, if you haven't, please create one

To Mount this Project you will need:

• NodeJS
• Npm
• MongoDB Atlas Cluster or MongoDB (Locally or in your own Server)
• Git
• Text Editor (VS Code)

First Steps

1. If you don't have it, please install Node.js >> Here
2. If you dont have it, please Install Git >> Here

Important

Is a must have to install this tools, then restart your PC

Once you do the Must have:

You need to create a folder where you want to clone this repo, i suggest to create a git folder on your personal user home: C:/users/<your_user>/git

Then open the created folder and once you are in, open a Terminal / CMD / Git Bash / Bash and type:

git clone https://github.com/Nikorasu-d/rest-api-fastify.git

This will clone the repo and you will have access to this project locally 🍻

Second Steps

Now you have everything installed open the Project folder, if you have done following my instructions the route will be C:/users/<your_user>/git/rest-api-fastify

Open a terminal and install the dependencies from the Package.json with the following command:

npm install

This is gonna create the node_modules folder, when everything is installed, execute this just in case of any problem with nodemon:

npm install nodemon --save-dev

Last Steps

Then the last step to have everything ready with the backend project is to include the env file. To do this you need to open the project folder with the text editor of your preference.

When you can see all the files you need to create a file without extension called .env

Will to look like this:

./--
    node_modules
    src
        config
            env.js
            database.js
        model
            todo.js
        controller
            todoController.js
        routes
            v2
                commonRoutes.js
        services
            todoService.js  
    index.js     
    .gitignore
    package-lock.json
    package.json
    README.md
    .env  -> You need to create this file

Inside this file you need to add the following code and complete the info with the route to your database

CON_STR = "your_connection_string"
API_KEY = "choose a password for post, put and delete"
DB = "name of your database"
COLLECTION = "name of your collection"
HOST = "default localhost"
PORT = "default 3000"

Build your project 🍾

Once you complete the previous configuration, you're ready to test it, to do that just open a terminal inside the project folder and run any of this scripts:

npm run dev  -> this one gonna launch nodemon index.js
npm run start  -> this one gonna launch node index.js

Note

If you want to develop changes over the code use dev, this one is going to use nodemon and you will be able to see changes in real time if you make a save when the server is running

For those who wants to deploy this API on Render

Make sure to create a new repo on your github, make a push to it, create a web service on render and connect to it, i will leave a code to make the git push easier:

// Make sure to Copy this code line by line on your terminal

git remote remove origin
git remote add <the_url_of_your_repo>
git add .
git commit -m "First commit"
git branch -M main
git push origin main

Important

When you're ready please take care of include all the env variables you have on .env changing HOST to 0.0.0.0 into the environment variables panel when you config your web service on RENDER:

HOST = 0.0.0.0

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