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This repository is to explore basics of node.js covering

1. ES6
2. Express
3. MongoDB
4. Mocha, Chai

1. Use npm init to create new node project.
2. Use npm install -D <dependency> to add dev dependency.
3. Using Babel to transpile ES6 code to native javascript.
   1. Make sure that babel dependencies specified in package.json are added correctly.
   2. Make sure that .babelrc file is created with appropriate presets
4. Using Express framework for building API server.
5. Instead of using npm init rather express <project_name> --no-view is used to generate this project.
6. Express come with many middleware like
   1. morgan
   2. debug
   3. cookie-parser
7. With express following project structure is followed
   1. app.js: Entry point of the application. Defines mapping of url to route.
   2. routes: Defines mapping of url to REST controller endpoint.
   3. controller: Defines actual endpoint.
8. On premise Mongo is used to store basic books and author data. Using Mongoose to connect to DB.
9. Use command babel-node populatedb.js mongodb://localhost:27017/local_library to add dummy data.
10. Chai along Mocha is used for testing. Mocha is a testing framework, Chai is an assertion library
11. nyc is used for generating test reports.