Kudos for staying with me through the entire series on Node REST API. This is the last and final tutorial in this series. I could have stopped this series at previous tutorial but I feel there is one more piece left and that is to integrate logging capabilities for our REST API. I personally would like to know if something has gone wrong in . . .

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Routes are nothing but http URLs. In REST routes are referred to as end points. In Part V of this series we defined a simple route.

router.get('/api', routes.welcomeAPI);//api end point

We need to implement a welcome message for our API. A message that will say something about our API. Let's create a new file called . . .

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In Part V we reviewed index.js file - an entry point for our REST API. In this tutorial we will build mongoose models. In Part II of this series we created few normalized documents for our recipes database. Now let’s build mongoose models using each document.

RecipeTypes Model

Our RecipeTypes document looks like below.

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Geez! That was a lot of grunt work. Finally we are ready to dive in and start writing the REST API using ExpressJS, NodeJS & MongoDB. First things first. Let’s add index.js file to our project.

Open “express-api” project in Sublime Text. Right click on the project and click add file. Save file as “index.js”. This file will be the . . .

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Stage is almost set. In previous tutorials we learned how to set up our environment, worked with MongoDB & also learned basics about NodeJS. Now let’s look at ExpressJS - A Framework for writing REST API with NodeJS. Express JS documentation is pretty awesome. Therefore, no need to paraphrase the documentation instead, I will review few . . .

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In Part II of this series we learned how to work with MongoDB. Before we dive into writing the REST API it is critical to review some basics on NodeJS. No, I am not going to bore you with yet another HelloWorld sampler, instead we will review what is important for writing a REST API.

I am assuming you have gone through the . . .

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