NOTE: The use of this project requires that you have a basic knowledge of using express in building a REST API. REST-compliant Web services allow requesting systems to access and manipulate textual representations of Web resources using a uniform and predefined set of stateless operations. Representational state transfer (REST) or RESTful web services is a way of providing interoperability between computer systems on the Internet. Just as a graphical user interface makes it easier for people to use programs, application programming interfaces make it easier for developers to use certain technologies in building applications. An API may be for a web-based system, operating system, database system, computer hardware or software library. A good API makes it easier to develop a computer program by providing all the building blocks, which are then put together by the programmer. In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components. REST Clients can, therefore, connect to the resulting REST server. The resulting API from this project is a JSON REST API which will respond to requests over HTTP.

Mocha is also used for running unit tests in the project. This project can be used for creating a RESTful API using Node JS, Express as the framework, Mongoose to interact with a MongoDB instance and Sequelize for support of SQL compatible databases. A template for starting projects with express as an API. Express REST API Generator is an Express Based API skeleton.

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