Bookstore REST API using NodeJS & Mongo DB

A REST API built on NodeJS/MongoDB

Book store API documentation http://[site]:[port]/api/endpoints

Endpoints /api:

/user

• user/signup [POST]
  • Sign up as a new user
  • Required json body params - ‘email’, ‘password’
• user/login [POST]
  • Login with existing creds
  • Required json body params - ‘email’, ‘password’

/store

• /store [GET]
  • Get list of books available in store
• /store/title [GET]
  • Get book filtered by title
• /store [POST]
  • Add new books to the store
  • Required json body params - ‘title’, ‘desc’, ‘price’

/orders

• /orders [GET]
  • Get list of orders placed by the logged in user
• /orders/orderID [GET]
  • Get a particular order
• /orders/title [POST]
  • Place order of a book based on the title provided
  • Required json body params - ‘id’ and title’

NOTE:

• POST requires authorization bearer token to be provided in headers.
• Accepted conventions - url-encoded and json

Glossary:

• context: gives context about the called api endpoint
• message: user message
• error: message for debugging, both for user/developer
• result: contains desired payload/data

Improvements not done:

• Store

  • Limit querying to a fixed number rather than fetching all data in a single call
  • Adding pagination to query to move to next set of result

• Orders

  • Filter order by order-number, title, date