-> Get mongoldb installer for Mac/Win/Linux: https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/community
->Extract and rename the folder to “mongoldb”
-> Move the new folder to your user directory (something like Users/ceco/mongodb (same for default Win/Mac/Linux)
->Inside the user directory create “mongodb-data” so Users/ceco/mongodb-data

How to run!

/Users/{username}/mongodb/bin/mongod --dbpath=/Users/{username}/mongodb-data

/Users/ceco/mongodb/bin/mongod --dbpath=/Users/ceco/mongodb-data


More info:

MongoDB runs on port 27017

Databases are called “collections”
Entries into the databases are called “documents” (it’s almost like a JSON object)

https://robomongo.org/ - easy to use GUY to check on data. You can also use it to CRUD whatever you like.



API:


Create a user
POST /users
{
 name,
 email,
 age,
 phone,
 status,
 password
}

returns  { user, token} 

GET /users/me
-auth
returns {user}

PATCH /users/me 
-  auth
{
 name,
 email,
 age,
 phone,
 status,
 password
}

returns the new updated {user}, if all passes validation


POST /users/login
{
email,
password
}
returns { user, token }


POST /users/logout 
-  expects a token
- deletes the current token from the DB

POST /users/logoutAll
- auth
- deletes ALL the tokens for that user

DELETE /users/me
- expects a token
- returns { user } and the user is deleted form the db.


PHOTOS:

POST /photos
- auth
form-data:
	photo: file
	title: string
	description: string
	visibility boolean
return { id } // the id of the photo as a string

GET photos/:id
- if the photo is set to visible:true, it will be downloaded with or without a token
- if the photo is set to visible:false, and no valid token is provided, it will return 404

DLETE photos/:id
- auth
- deletes the photo from DB.


Examples:

Create user :
{{url}}/users:
{
    "name": “Cec-User1”,
    "email": "cec1@gmail.com",
    "password": "nv710ny09amyw"
}

User login:
{{url}}/users/login
{
    "email": "cec1@gmail.com",
    "password": "nv710ny09amyw"
}