If you want to use full fake NoSQL datebase using json-server that can be used in development purpose as a simpler database for smaller applications. You can use this repo for that.

1 . Clone this repo on your computer.

$ git clone https://github.com/akamit21/json-server.git

2 . Add your own content to db.json and then commit your changes to git.

this example will create /users and /posts route , each resource will have their own data depending on what are adding o it. In the second example you can see that I have added {id, name and email} to users array and {id, title and content} to posts array. In both cases id will auto increment!

{
  "users": [],
  "posts": []
}

{
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Full name!",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    }
  ],
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "title": "First post!",
      "content": "My first content!"
    }
  ]
}

In both cases data's are dummy you can have data of your own choice.

Heroku is a free hosting service for hosting small projects. Easy setup and deploy from the command line via git.

1 . Create your server

2 . Create an account on
https://heroku.com

3 . Install the Heroku CLI on your computer:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli

4 . Connect the Heroku CLI to your account by writing the following command in your terminal and follow the instructions on the command line:

heroku login

5 . Then create a remote heroku project, kinda like creating a git repository on GitHub. This will create a project on Heroku with a random name. If you want to name your app you have to supply your own name like heroku create project-name:

heroku create `project name`

6 . Open your project folder by writing the following command in your terminal and follow the instructions on the command line:

cd `project name`

7 . Push your app to Heroku (you will see a wall of code)

git push heroku master

8 . Visit your newly create app by opening it via heroku:

heroku open

9 . For debugging if something went wrong:

heroku logs --tail

Heroku will look for a startup-script, this is by default npm start so make sure you have that in your package.json (assuming your script is called server.js):

1 . Clone repository

$ git clone https://github.com/akamit21/json-server.git
$ cd json-server

2 . Run npm install npm install will install all modules listed as dependencies in package.json file.

$ npm install

3 . Run npm run start It will run application in http://localhost:3000

$ npm run start
$ npm run dev `if you want to use nodemon`

 "scripts": {
    "start" : "node server.js",
    "dev" : "nodemon server.js"
 }

4 . You also have to make changes to the port, you can't hardcode a dev-port.

const port = process.env.PORT || port_number;

Contributions are always welcome!

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Credit : Jesper Orb