I'm currently working on developing an API and I need to set up a route like api/v1/status in order to check the server status. This route should return a JSON response with the total number of requests made to the API since it became active. However, I am facing some challenges in implementing this functionality using NodeJS. Can anyone offer some guidance or assistance?
Here is the code snippet for my statusRoutes.js:
src/routes/statusRoutes.js
// Initializing express router
let router = require('express').Router();
// Setting default API response
router.get('/status', function (req, res) {
// Returning the number of requests made
res.json({
status: 'API is Working',
message: 'Welcome to User-Register built with love!',
});
});
module.exports = router
In addition to the status route, I have several other routes defined in my API:
src/routes/userRoutes.js
const express = require('express')
const router = express.Router()
var userController = require('../controllers/userController')
// Defining user routes
router.route('/users/')
.get(userController.index)
.post(userController.new);
router.route('/users/:user_id')
.get(userController.view)
.patch(userController.update)
.put(userController.update)
.delete(userController.delete)
// Exporting userRoute
module.exports = router
Furthermore, here's how my index.js file is configured:
src/index.js
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const expressValidator = require('express-validator');
const app = express();
const http = require('http').Server(app);
// Importing routes
const statusRoutes = require("./routes/statusRoutes");
const userRoutes = require("./routes/userRoutes");
// Configuring bodyparser to handle POST requests
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
extended: true
}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(expressValidator());
// Connecting to MongoDB database based on environment
const dbName = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'dev' ? 'database-test' : 'database';
const url = `mongodb://${process.env.MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME}:${process.env.MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD}@${dbName}:27017/?authMechanism=SCRAM-SHA-1&authSource=admin`;
mongoose.set('useCreateIndex', true);
mongoose.connect(url);
// Setting up server port
var port = process.env.PORT || 8080;
// Handling CORS
app.use(function (req, res, next) {
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", 'GET,PUT,POST,DELETE,PATCH');
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type");
next();
});
// Default URL response
app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('User-Register is Working!!'));
// Using API routes in the application
app.use('/api/v1', statusRoutes);
app.use('/api/v1', userRoutes);
// Listening on specified port
app.listen(port, function () {
console.log("Running User-Register on port " + port);
app.emit('APP_STARTED');
});
module.exports = app