Project 1 - cse-341

Purpose

This project will provide an API for storing and retrieving information about contacts. These contacts will be stored in a MongoDB database and all interaction will happen through the API.

Requirements

• The database stores the following for each contact: firstName, lastName, email, favoriteColor, and birthday.
• Node project successfully connects to MongoDB.
• API routes perform GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE.
• API Documentation using Swagger.
• API is published to Render and can be called from external sources.

Initial Module List

• controllers/contacts.js - Contains the functions of the different endpoints.
• database.js - Contains the connection to the contacts API using MongoDB.
• routes/contacts.js - Call endpoints.

Setup

• npm i Install the necessary dependencies mentioned in the package.json if they are not installed.
• npm start Connects to database using localhost 3000

Other commands

• npm run swagger Creates the documentation using SWAGGER