Atom IDE

https://atom.io

• Download
• Unzip and drag to installation location
• Open Atom
• Menu Bar -> Atom -> Install Shell Commands

• Open a terminal session
• atom . (opens atom in the current working directory)
• Menu Bar -> Atom Preferences
• Install -> Search and click Packages to find and install
  • atom-beautify
  • atom-jade
  • json-converter
  • jsonlint
  • linter
  • language-babel
  • pretty-json

Node (manual) – not preferred

https://nodejs.org

• Download latest version
• follow installation instructions

NPM – Node Package Manager – not preferred

https://www.npmjs.com

• click button
• follow installation instructions

NVM – Node Version Manager – preferred

https://github.com/creationix/nvm

• scroll down to readme and installation instructions
  • open terminal
  • curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.2/install.sh | bash
  • close terminal session
  • open terminal
    • nvm help
    • nvm ls
    • nvm install v6.5.0
    • nvm uninstall v6.5.0
    • nvm install node
    • nvm use v6.5.0
    • node -v
    • node –version

Homebrew

https://brew.sh

• copy command line code to install homebrew
• open terminal
• /usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”

MongoDB

https://www.mongodb.com

• scroll to install using homebrew
• follow instructions
  • brew update
  • brew install mongodb
  • sudo mkdir -p /data/db
  • sudo chown /data/db
  • mongod  (starts mongo daemon)
  • mongo (this is the client)
    • show dbs (show databases)
    • use

Mongo Commands

• use
  creates it if it does not exist
• db
  shows the current db

• db.mytable.insert({“name”:”jd”,”age”:21})
  creates table if it does not exist, inserts the json data

RoboMongo

https://robomongo.org

• download Robo 3T
• install Robo 3T
• Open Robo 3T
  • Create Connection
    • Direct
    • localhost :: 27017
  • mydb -> Collections -> mytable

Json Server

https://github.com/typicode/json-server

scroll down page to install section

• npm install -g json-server
• mkdir serverdb
• cd serverdb
• from website, creae db.json as follows

{
"posts":[
{
"id":1,
"title":"json-server",
"author":"typicode"
}
],
"comments":[
{
"id":1,
"body":"some comment",
"postId":1
}
],
"profile":{
"name":"typicode"
}
}

• json-server –watch db.json
  start json-server

Postman

https://www.getpostman.com

• download Postman
• install postman
• start json-server
• open postman
  • GET localhost:3000/posts
  • GET localhost:3000/comments
  • GET localhost:3000/profile

Node Package Manager – install packages

https://www.npmjs.com

• search for readline
• scroll down to readline-sync
• scroll down to installation

  • mkdir -p mynodeproject

  • cd mynodeproject
  • npm init
    defaults all the way
  • ls
  • atom .
  • npm install readline-sync –save
  • ls
  • view the package.json
    readline-sync added to dependencies

Copy example from webpage into index.js

var readlineSync = require('readline-sync');

// Wait for user's response.
var userName = readlineSync.question('May I have your name? ');
console.log('Hi ' + userName + '!');

// Handle the secret text (e.g. password).
var favFood = readlineSync.question('What is your favorite food? ', {
hideEchoBack: true // The typed text on screen is hidden by `*` (default).
});
console.log('Oh, ' + userName + ' loves ' + favFood + '!');

• open terminal
• node index.js