Web services for nodebnb

• node
• mongodb
• elasticsearch

export elasticsearch bin folder, e.g.

$ echo 'export PATH=/Users/ytian/Applications/elasticsearch-1.5.2/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile; source ~/.bash_profile

export convenient way to run ES6 Babel on Node.js

$ echo 'alias bodemon="nodemon --exec babel-node -- --stage 1 --optional strict --"' >> ~/.bash_profile

1. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/nodebnb/BackEnd.git

2. Go into folder: cd BackEnd

3. Install dependencies: npm install

4. Create local MongoDB database called nodebnb

5. Create ElasticSearch index curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/listings/'

6. Load history data into MongoDB mongoimport --db nodebnb --collection listings --file data/bnb.json

   Or crawl new data bodemon bin/scraper.js

7. Index data into search engine bodemon bin/indexer.js

1. Start the app: npm start
2. View in browser at: http://localhost:8000

1. Address in use

Error: listen EADDRINUSE

ps aux | grep node
kill <node-process>

2. Nothing returned when hitting http://localhost:8000

Restart elasticsearch & mongodb and redo step 6 & 7