Jardin Products - Node.js API service uses AWS DynamoDB

Copyright Toby Knight 2019.

Overview

Jardin Products is a simple Node.js, RESTful web service using Express to serve simple product data.

Quick start

You need to create your own AWS DynamoDB table. [TO DO: Add detailed instructions to create table, or add CloudFormation template.]

git clone https://github.com/tobywknight/jardin-products.git
cd jardin-products
npm install

Edit the credentials-template.js file to include your AWS region, dynamo table name, access key and secret key. Rename the credentials-template.js file to credentials.js

Run the local development server to test the app:

npm start

Credits and sources

I have reused code published elsewhere. Specific credits:

• Web Development with Node and Express, Ethan Brown, O'Reilly publishing. https://github.com/EthanRBrown/web-development-with-node-and-express
• Getting Started with the DynamoDB SDK - Node.js and DynamoDB, https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GettingStarted.NodeJs.html

Known issues and TODO list

Need to add handling for unknown productID, perhaps 404 error.