donation-tracker-ios-server-api

This project is the API for donation tracker which is an ios app managing item donation at different location.

Dependencies

• npm - the package.json file lists all of the npm dependencies

REST API with ES6 and Express.

• ES6 support via babel
• Express is Node.js web application framework via express
• Passport authentication for Node.js via passport
• Socket.IO enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication via socket.io
• Mongoose is a MongoDB object modeling tool via mongoose
• Body Parsing via body-parser

Getting Started

Run a local instance

• Go to src/config/index.js
• change port to "port": 3005
• change mongoUrl to "mongoUrl": "mongodb://localhost:27017/chat-api"

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start local development live-reload server port 3005:
npm run dev

# Requests made in the form http://localhost:3005/v1/endpoint

# To build ES6 code
npm run build

Run a live online instance

• Go to src/config/index.js
• change port to "port": process.env.PORT
• change mongoUrl to "mongoUrl": process.env.MONGODB_URI