Advanced Express Web Application Development

Chapter 2. Building a Web API

With the foundations in place, we begin the process of building a Web API for our Vision project. We will start by setting up a persistence layer using MongoDB. We will then implement, feature-by-feature, the various aspects of our Web API.

Persisting data with MongoDB and Mongoose

MongoDB is an open source document-oriented database system. MongoDB stores structured data such as JSON-like documents, simplifying integration.

Let's start by creating a MongoDB schema for our project. The schema contains some basic information related to the project such as the project's name, a GitHub access token, a user, and a list of repositories.

Let's install Mongoose, a MongoDB Object Document Mapper for Node.js; it provides a schema-based ...