Locary API

Includes API Server utilities:

• morgan
  • HTTP request logger middleware for node.js
• helmet
  • Helmet helps you secure your Express apps by setting various HTTP headers. It's not a silver bullet, but it can help!
• dotenv
  • Dotenv is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env

Development utilities:

• nodemon
  • nodemon is a tool that helps develop node.js based applications by automatically restarting the node application when file changes in the directory are detected.
• eslint
  • ESLint is a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code.
• supertest
  • HTTP assertions made easy via superagent.

Setup

npm install

Lint

npm run lint

Test

npm run test

Development

npm run dev

Resources

• Starter code: https://github.com/w3cj/express-api-starter.git
• Testing: https://fullstackopen.com/en/part4/testing_the_backend
• Using async/await with forEach: Stackoverflow post