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The package should contain package.json file to indicate the dependencies. Then we can use npm install.

Since we provide database interface to public, I was worried about the data security through the query expression. The main idea is to perform query expression pre-validation before it goes to database. That will prevent people accidentally or on purposely mess-up the database. But I am not a mongoDB expert, so I am not sure this problem. I notice that we already have several validation modules in source tree but haven't really implement it.
Therefore, so far I think do some simple data validation is enough to address this requirements. And as long as we separate the function out, we could always keep improve it later.

I am currently testing the service through a web application. The requests send from the apps get reject due to the cross-origin prevention. Can we set our response header to properly allow my app host to access the resources?

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://light.home:9999/data. Origin http://dev.yesgoody.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14185383/cross-domain-cors-support-for-backbone-js

our current api separate different functions through different url. It could be more simplicity and data-model oriented. In general, we have two layers apis. The first one works on the low level raw data which provides CURD operations, collect, read, update and delete. The second one works on the higher level analytic level, which provides aggregate metrics. By understanding above, I propose the following url style. It is heavily influenced by RESTful style, therefore will be more easy and compatiable for us to develop client App throught existed framework

1. POST /collect -> POST /data
2. GET /query -> GET /data
3. POST /modify -> PUT /data
4. POST /delete -> DELETE /data
5. GET /metrics -> GET /metrics
6. POST /metrics -> POST /metrics

improve the mongdb configuration to handle the third-part mongoDB uri.
For example, the project can be configured to use free development mongoDB, mongohq.

mongodb://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<dbname>

you can create a free mongoHQ development instance on their site, or email me to get it from my account.

yajl seems a fast json library. But we need install a non nodejs requirement.

Do we really heavily using that now?
Can we use build-in implementation or alternative method?