Simple RESTful CRUD server for NEPPI-course

Sensor database server created with NodeJS, MongoDB, Swagger, and Docker.

Supports CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) commands with RESTful API.

The API-port is 3000 by default. In order to change this, it needs to be modified in app.js, Dockerfile, and docker-compose.yml.

API-documents can be found in address http://<localhost/VM_address>/api-docs

Some helpful commands for testing the environment are written below.

Local environment

Write package.json

npm init --yes

Install packages

npm install

Build and run the backend

docker build -t my-nodejs-app . docker run -d --name my-running-app -p 3000:3000 my-nodejs-app

Run the MongoDB

docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -v ~/data:/data/db mongo

Remove all images, container, and volumes

docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q) || docker rmi -f $(docker images -a -q) || docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q)

Docker environment

Run the whole program

docker-compose build && docker-compose up (sudo most likely needed with VM environment)