Document Management System (Node, Express, Mongo)

Models

The models contained are users and documents. A document belongs to a User and is related to them using the ownerId. A Role is related to the User using the id field. Each Document has restrictions on the roles. A Role also relates to the Document using the title.

Testing

Testing is done using the superagent node module which is installed via npm when you install all the other node modules in package.json. superagent is used to make requests to the api routes and receive responses. The tests are run on terminal using the command:

mocha tests/ --verbose

Express Routes

The routes are created using express routers. The server needs to be started using the terminal command nodemon server.js. Our server file is called server.js. The routes are defined in the ./server/routes/api.js file.

Mongo Database

One needs an installation of Mongodb locally. Our database is called docs_api_node. We connect to it using the configurations in ./server/config/config.js file.

'database': 'mongodb://localhost/docs_api_node',

This line in particular is needed. To use this database throughout the run-time of the application, one needs to run the command mongod on the terminal. The database needs to be dropped first, before the tests are run. It is dropped in the express server by the command:

mongoose.connection.db.dropDatabase(function(err) {
  if (err) {
    return err;
  } else {
    console.log('Dropped database');
    (function() {
      seed.seeder();
    })();
  }
});

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