README.md

Node.js Web APIs

This repository contains a Web API sample built with Node.js. A Angular 2 client is used to communicate with the APIs. A lot of things in this repo are covered by a blog series.

This project has been forked from Thinktecture Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0 Web API and was adopted for usage in the Hackerstolz Hackschool.

Web APIs

• HTTP GET api/customer/list: Returns a list of all customers
• HTTP POST api/customer: Creates a new customer
• HTTP DELETE api/customer/{id}: Removes a customer

Setup

• Install Node.js > v5 .
• Execute npm install within the root of this repository to install all necessary dependencies. You will encounter some npm err or npm warn. That's okay, since this repository uses a lot beta versions. It will not break the application.

Starting

• To start the Web APIs execute node index.js in src/nodejs. It will then be accessible via http://localhost:5000.

Angular 2 Client

To start the Angular 2 Client, run npm run watch within the root of the repository. You can access the client via http://localhost:8000. The credentials are

• Username: bob
• Password: bob

Since both backends lack a support for user management, those credentials are the only one which are working. :-)

Third-Party Libraries

This section contains notable third-party libraries.

Node.js

• restify Used for Web API hosting.
• restify-cors-middleware An actually working middleware for handling cors in restify.
• express Used for STS hosting.
• SequelizeJS Used to provide an ORM accessing the PostgreSQL database.

Angular 2 Client

• Angular 2 itself. ;-)
• Gulp for building and watching

Additional resources

• Node.js at Paypal
• Node.js at Netflix
• Node.js at Walmart