Building a REST API with Node.js and MongoDB

Federico Pinna @0xfede

Agenda

• MongoDB intro

• 2-minute installation

• Basic operations

• Geospatial queries

• 4-minute replication

• Node.js intro

• NPM and package.json

• Express.js intro

• Connecting to MongoDB

• Basic REST API

MongoDB

• NoSQL

• Highly Available

• Scalable

• Stable

• Fast

• Sharding & Replication

• Aggregation

• Geospatial Queries

• GridFS

• Pub/Sub

MongoDB

• try.mongodb.org

MongoDB

Ok, it’s play time :-)

Node.js

• Server side Javascript

• Google V8

• Event driven

• Non-blocking I/O

• Scalable & Stable

• Modular

• Big Community

• Made of Awesome

Node.js• nodejs.org

• npmjs.org

• socket.io

• expressjs.com

• passportjs.org

• underscorejs.com

• github.com/caolan/async

• github.com/mikeal/request

My all time favourites :-)

Node.js

And it’s play time again :-)

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