A boilerplate/starter project for quickly building RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose.

This is your server's main file. It references all required files that further reference to other files. Among the main elements in this file are the instantiation of express, middlewares, references to the routes and the database connection.

All environment variables (configuration constants)are declared in this file. In this template, the database connection string is included. Simply replace <db_username with your mongodb username and <db_name> with the name you wish to use for your collection.
Do not include this file when pushing to your remote version control repo, such as Github. To ensure that this file is excluded when you push to your remote repo, add .env in your .gitignore file.

In this subdirectory, you will define all models for your collections. A model is a data object schema. It describes the collection fields and their data types, along with other attributes.

The models defined in the models subdirectory are consumed by the routes created in this folder.