marclipe / countries-api

Node.Js API With Knex And MySQL

To init in Knex

• npx knex init

Creation Migration File

knex migrate:make countries

or

./node_modules/.bin/knex migrate:make countries

To run the migrations, run the command below on your terminal:

knex migrate:latest

To undo the migrations, run the command below:

knex migrate:rollback

• To show all database mysql -u username -p and SHOW DATABASES;

Seeding Databases with Data

• Run the command below to create a seed file for your author table:

knex seed:make countries

• You can execute a seed file by running the command below: knex seed:run --specific=<file_name>

(Inspiration)[https://blog.openreplay.com/creating-a-nodejs-api-with-knex-and-mysql/]

CORS

• npm install cors
• Add following lines to your server.js or index.js

  const cors = require('cors')

  app.use(cors()) // Use this after the variable declaration

Cookies

npm install cookie-parser

  const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser')
  // let’s you use the cookieParser in your application
  app.use(cookieParser());

uuid

npm install uuid