sofiavazs / project-mongo-api

Mongo API Project 🍃

This project's main goal was to use MongoDB to build a database to store data, as well as, retrieve that data and use it to produce a RESTful API. Also it should be modelled and manipulated using mongoose.

Planning & What I learned 🧩

• The first step of this project was actually to read through MongoDB's documentation, install it and connect it to MongoDB Atlas, so my API could be deployed to Heroku.
• After everything was up and running I started looking at the data - I chose a different dataset this time so I get used to diffenret data sets - and started planning the possible endpoints. Since we needed to use mongoose to model and manipulate the data, I then went ahead and create the mongoose model and started to build my endpoints with mongoose operators like find(), findOne() and $gte to filter even more my top songs list by the most popular songs.
• When I started testing my endpoints I encountered some issues related to case sensitive text, as well as, the genres in the dataset were all in the same string, this would make it difficult to get a match unless we would know all the data, so I needed to use Regex for the artist enpoint and genres query.
• Learned a lot about error handling!

Endpoints 💫

/

Root: Welcome page

/topsongs

Shows all songs in the dataset

/topsongs?genre=:genre

Shows the songs that match totally or partially the searched genre.

/topsongs/most-popular

Shows the top songs with popularity over 90.

/topsongs/:id

Shows a single song based on that song's id parameter.

/topsongs/artists/:artistName

Shows a song by a specific artist that matches totally or partially the artist's name.

Tech ⚡️

• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• Node.js
• Express

View it live 🔴

Top Songs API 🎶