Booking API

The Booking API uses a Mongo database. If you are running the application locally, you will need to have a MongoDB running and will have to run the application in production mode.

If you don't run the application in production mode, the API will use memory storage instead of your MongoDB, and your data will be erased on any restart to the server.

Step 1

Install and run MongoDB.

Step 2

Fork the Booking API repo, clone it to your machine and run npm install.

npm install

Step 3

Start the application.

NODE_ENV=production npm start

Step 4

Navigate to the API explorer where you can post some data.

http://localhost:3000/explorer/

Step 5

• Click on a resource, eg: Location.
• Click post.
• Enter some data in the same format as the example, and hit the 'try it out' button. ID's are automatically generated.

{
  "name": "Discovery One"
}

See below to see the relationships of the models.

Model relationships

Booking belongs_to Room

Feature belongs_to Room

Location has_many Rooms

Room belongs_to Location
Room has_many Bookings
Room has_many Features

Environment Variables

MONGODB_URI - URI for your production database.
PORT - Determines port, defaults to 3000.