Todo backend API

Backend for adding, listing, updating and deleting todos.

A todo item looks like this -

{
    "_id": "60b09540c8a51f2904e9d945",
    "title": "Get groceries",
    "description": "Get groceries",
    "completed": false,
    "createdAt": "2021-05-28T07:01:20.904Z",
    "updatedAt": "2021-05-28T07:01:20.904Z",
    "__v": 0
}

Features -

• Scalable web server using vanilla javascript, Express.js as web framework, and Mongoose.js as ODM.
• Use of useful middlewares like G-Zip compression, CORS, Helmet.js, and Correlation Id.
• Centralized Request body validation for HTTP POST and HTTP PUT requests using JSON schema AJV.
• Structured logging using Winston.js and file transport and log rotation using winston-daily-rotate-file.
• Fully dockerized.
• Unit testing using Mocha.js as test runner, Chai.js for assertions, Sinon.js for stubbing/spying, and Faker.js for generating fake data.
• e2e testing using Mocha.js as test runner, supertest to send HTTP requests, and MongoDB In-Memory Server for persistence during test runs.
• HTML test coverage using nyc.

NPM scripts -

• npm install - to install dependencies.
• npm run start - to start web server
• npm run dev - to start web server in dev mode using nodemon
• npm run test - to run unit and e2e tests
• npm run coverage - to generate test coverage

Docker - docker compose up to start the web server with its dependencies.

Postman collection, collection public link, and environment variables here.