Node.js, Express and MongodB: Create a Restfull API with images upload

What will you learn by downloading my code?

• Use of express to make API creation simple
• Using mongoose to manage communication with Mongo DB
• Image Upload with multer
• Image deletion with the notions of paths and file system in node
• Field validation using express-validator
• Creation of reusable methods thanks to the concept of modules
• Creation of a functional REST API with Node.js, Express and Mongo DB.

Are you ready ? Let's go

Clone the repository then run npm install

You can install mongodb locally or use Mongo Atlas (online). In both cases, go to the index.js file then replace the url mongodb://localhost:27017/player-db with your url. In my case I use Mongo DB locally. It is therefore available on port 27017(by default) and the name of my database is player-db.

To launch your project, just type the following command : 'npm start'. Your API will therefore run on port 3000

This is an API that manages players (football for example). A player is characterized by:

• name: the name of the player
• age: the player's age
• bio: a brief biography of the player (at least 15 characters)
• photoUrl: player photo
• createdAt and updatedAt are generated automatically using the timestamps: true statement in the models/index.js file

So we have a total of 5 routes

1. Add player http://localhost:3000/api/v1/player
2. List of all players http://localhost:3000/api/v1/players
3. Find player by Id http://localhost:3000/api/v1/player/:playerId
4. Update player http://localhost:3000/api/v1/player/:playerId
5. Delete player http://localhost:3000/api/v1/player/:playerId
6. Login http://localhost:3000/api/v1/login
7. Register http://localhost:3000/api/v1/register
8. Export excel http://localhost:3000/api/v1/export-to-excel