contacts-api

a simple application that exposes REST APIs for learning

contacts-api exposes REST endpoints to get, create, update, delete and list contacts. UI for the app is available here

Configurations supported

The following are the default values for respective environments. If necessary, configure using env variables

Application Configuration

Configuration	Default value
NODE_ENV	"development"
PORT	3000

Database Configuration - development

Configuration	Default value
DB_USERNAME	*postgres default
DB_PASSWORD	*postgres default
DB_NAME	"contacts_development"
DB_HOSTNAME	"localhost"
DB_PORT	5432

Database Configuration - test

Configuration	Default value
DB_USERNAME	*postgres default
DB_PASSWORD	*postgres default
DB_NAME	"contacts_test"
DB_HOSTNAME	"localhost"
DB_PORT	5432

Database Configuration - production

Configuration	Default value
DB_USERNAME	*postgres default
DB_PASSWORD	*postgres default
DB_NAME	"contacts_production"
DB_HOSTNAME	"localhost"
DB_PORT	5432

Up and Running

1. Start Postgres server

2. Setup databases in Postgres

npm run createdb

3. Using the app

# To install dependencies
npm install

# To start the application
npm start

# To start the server using nodemon
# https://github.com/remy/nodemon
npm run nodemon

# To run tests
npm test

# To run tests with coverage
npm run coverage

# To list all supported commands
npm run