Building a User Management API
Let’s illustrate the concepts discussed above with a practical example of building a simple User Management API using Node.js and Express.
// Import required modules
const express = require('express'); // Import Express.js framework
const bodyParser = require('body-parser'); // Import body-parser middleware for parsing incoming request bodies
// Create Express app
const app = express();
// Define the port number, use environment variable PORT if available, otherwise default to 3000
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;
// Middleware: Use body-parser to parse JSON request bodies
app.use(bodyParser.json());
// Dummy database (replace with actual database connection)
let users = [];
// Routes
// GET request to fetch all users
app.get('/users', (req, res) => {
res.json(users); // Respond with the users array in JSON format
});
// POST request to add a new user
app.post('/users', (req, res) => {
const newUser = req.body; // Extract the new user object from the request body
users.push(newUser); // Add the new user to the users array
res.status(201).json(newUser); // Respond with the new user object and status code 201 (Created)
});
// GET request to fetch a user by ID
app.get('/users/:id', (req, res) => {
const userId = req.params.id; // Extract the user ID from the request parameters
const user = users.find(user => user.id === userId); // Find the user in the users array by ID
if (user) {
res.json(user); // Respond with the user object in JSON format
} else {
res.status(404).send('User not found'); // Respond with status code 404 (Not Found) if user is not found
}
});
// PUT request to update a user by ID
app.put('/users/:id', (req, res) => {
const userId = req.params.id; // Extract the user ID from the request parameters
const updatedUser = req.body; // Extract the updated user object from the request body
const index = users.findIndex(user => user.id === userId); // Find the index of the user in the users array by ID
if (index !== -1) {
users[index] = updatedUser; // Update the user object in the users array
res.json(updatedUser); // Respond with the updated user object
} else {
res.status(404).send('User not found'); // Respond with status code 404 (Not Found) if user is not found
}
});
// DELETE request to delete a user by ID
app.delete('/users/:id', (req, res) => {
const userId = req.params.id; // Extract the user ID from the request parameters
users = users.filter(user => user.id !== userId); // Filter out the user from the users array by ID
res.sendStatus(204); // Respond with status code 204 (No Content)
});
// Start server and listen on the specified port
app.listen(PORT, () => {
console.log(`Server running on port ${PORT}`); // Log a message to the console indicating the server is running
});
Exolanation: This code sets up a basic Express.js server with CRUD operations for a user resource. It uses the body-parser middleware to parse incoming JSON requests. The server maintains a dummy database in memory (array) to store user data. Each route corresponds to a different CRUD operation: GET for fetching all users or a specific user by ID, POST for adding a new user, PUT for updating a user, and DELETE for deleting a user. The server listens on a specified port (3000 by default) and logs a message to the console when it starts running.
Creating APIs for Relational Database
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