Example of Read
Database connection
1. Let's start by creating an index.js then initializing your JavaScript project by running npm init in your terminal after that let's download the libraries that we will be using today which are express and mysql by running npm install express mysql2.
2. Create 3 directory which are routers, Controllers, services then create 2 directory transactions and users
3. Write the following code in the index.js
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const port = 5000;
app.use(express.json());
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}`);
});
4. In directory services create database.js
5. Import the mysql library to your project.
const mysql = require("mysql2");
6. Add the following code
This is thedatabase configurationof your database.
const connection = mysql.createConnection({
host: "tutorialdb.pspgun.com",
port: "13308",
user: "",
password: "",
database: "csc-105",
});
7. Connect to the database
This line of code is using theconnectionvariable from above to connect to the database using.connect()method.
connection.connect((err) => {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
console.log("Database is connected");
}
});
8. Export the connection so that we can use it in other file.
module.exports = connection;
The code right now should look like this in
const mysql = require("mysql2");
const connection = mysql.createConnection({
host: "tutorialdb.pspgun.com",
port: "13308",
user: "mentor",
password: "mentor1212312121",
database: "csc-105",
});
// Connect to database
connection.connect((err) => {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
throw "Database is not connected";
} else {
console.log("Database is connected");
}
});
module.exports = connection;
9. Restart the application
If your database connection is invalid, it will show you an error. ❌👇🏻
If your database connection is valid, your application will run correctly. ✅👇🏻
Let's write the endpoint that query user balance data from the database and response to the user.
- This the schema of
sample
database 👇🏻
Example of Read
1. Let's create a first endpoint query balance from the database by create getBalance.js
in controller->transaction directory
then use the code below.
- In the path
/balance
, it will query from balance of theusers
table. - We will use the
.query()
method to insert your SQL query. - The second argument to the
.query()
method is a callback function(err, rows)
, which will be called when the MySQL send the response. The callback function takes two arguments,err
androws
, which represent theerror
of the database androws
objects for response data from MySQL database. If
we found an error, we will response the error message to the client.else
, we will returnrow
which is data from theusers
table from the database. 👇🏻
const connection = require("../../services/database");
const getBalance = async (req, res) => {
// Assign the params as a variable
const userId = req.query.userId;
// Regex to check the userId is a number only or not
const checkUserId = new RegExp(/^\d+$/).test(userId); // Boolean
// Check if the userId is not exist or is not a number, return json with an error
if (!userId || !checkUserId) {
return res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: "user_id is invalid",
});
}
// Query the data from the database
try {
// Get user balance data
const userBalanceQuery = await connection
.promise()
.query(`SELECT balance FROM users WHERE id = ${userId}`);
const userBalance = userBalanceQuery[0][0];
// Check if user data is empty
if (!userBalance) {
return res.status(404).json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: "User not found",
});
}
// Return data to the client if success
return res.json({
success: true,
data: userBalance,
error: null,
});
} catch (error) {
console.error("Error:", error);
return res.status(500).json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: "Internal server error",
});
}
};
module.exports = getBalance;
2. Create transaction.js
under routers
and create router for transaction
const express = require("express");
const getBalance = require("../controllers/transactions/getBalance");
const transactionsRouter = express.Router();
transactionsRouter.get("/balance", getBalance);
module.exports = transactionsRouter;
3. Import transactionsRouter
into index.js
and make a path
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
// Add
const transactionsRouter = require("./routers/transactions");
const port = 5000;
app.use(express.json());
// Add
app.use("/transactions", transactionsRouter);
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}`);
});
4. Let's run your application again, and use postman with localhost:5000/transactions/balance?userId=1
- You will see the result like this.
Another example of Read
1. Create getAll.js
under directory controller->users
2. Create an endpoint query all users from the database using the code below in getAll.js
const connection = require("../../services/database");
const getAll = async (req, res) => {
// Query the data from the database
try {
// Get user data
const userDataQuery = await connection
.promise()
.query(`SELECT * FROM users`);
const userData = userDataQuery[0];
// Check if user data is empty
if (!userData) {
return res.status(404).json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: "There is no user data in the database",
});
}
// Return data to the client if success
return res.json({
success: true,
data: userData,
error: null,
});
} catch (error) {
console.error("Error:", error);
return res.status(500).json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: "Internal server error",
});
}
};
module.exports = getAll;
3. Create users.js
under directory routers
and write
const express = require("express");
const getAll = require("../controllers/users/getAll");
const usersRouter = express.Router();
usersRouter.get("/all", getAll);
module.exports = usersRouter;
4. Import usersRouter
into index.js
and make a path
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const usersRouter = require("./routers/users");
const transactionsRouter = require("./routers/transactions");
const port = 5000;
app.use(express.json());
app.use("/users", usersRouter);
app.use("/transactions", transactionsRouter);
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}`);
});
5. Let's run your application again, and use postman with localhost:5000/users/all
- You will see the result like this.
Example of Create
- Let's create a first endpoint query balance from the database by create
getBalance.js
incontroller->transaction directory
- Create a request.
http://127.0.0.1:3000/todo?todo_id=1
- Click
Send
- The response from your backend application 👇🏻
Example of the POST
method
- Create an endpoint that create a
user
-
Before writing a request, we need to install the library
body-parser
first. -
npm i body-parser
-
Because Express JS cannot read the JSON body request directly, So we need to install
body-parser
first.
const bodyParser = require("body-parser"); // import the body-parser
// parse various different custom JSON types as JSON
app.use(bodyParser.json({ type: "application/json" }));
Code ...
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const mysql = require("mysql2");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser"); 👈🏻
const port = 3000;
const connection = mysql.createConnection({
host: "server2.mixkoap.com",
port: "6103",
user: "root",
password: "root_apisitmaneerat",
database: "csc105-workshop",
});
// Connect to database
connection.connect();
console.log("Database is connected");
// parse various different custom JSON types as JSON
app.use(bodyParser.json({ type: "application/json" })); 👈🏻
app.get("/", (req, res) => {
res.send("Hello World!");
});
.
.
.
.
.
.
- Create an endpoint
app.post("/todo/create", (req, res) => {
// The JSON body
const payload = req.body;
connection.query(
`INSERT INTO users (username) VALUES (?)`, [payload.userName], (err, rows) => {
// Check if cannot find the data in the database then return the error
if (err) {
res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: err.message,
});
} else {
// Return data to the client if success
console.log(rows);
if (rows) {
res.json({
success: true,
data: {
message: "create success",
},
});
}
}
}
);
});
- The request body mostly send in
JSON
format 👆🏻 - Create a request in Postman and change the HTTP method to
POST
****Remark - HTTP Methods 👇🏻
- Add the
JSON
body 👇🏻
http://127.0.0.1:3000/todo/create
{
"userName" : "Apisit Maneerat"
}
- Click
Send
-
The response from your backend application. 👆🏻
-
In the Database 👇🏻
- For more detail
Example of the PATCH
method
- Create an endpoint that edit the data in the Database
- For example we are going to change the
name
anddetail
fromid = 1
- Create the endpoint
- For this endpoint we use
.patch()
because we are going to edit some fields that you specific in the Database.
app.patch("/todo/edit", (req, res) => {
// The JSON body
const payload = req.body;
console.log(payload);
connection.query(
"UPDATE items SET name = ?, detail = ? WHERE id = ?", [payload.name, payload.detail, payload.id],
(err, rows) => {
// Check if cannot find the data in the database then return the error
if (err) {
res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: err.message,
});
} else {
// Return data to the client if success
if (rows) {
res.json({
success: true,
data: {
message: "update successfully",
},
});
}
}
}
);
});
- Create a request in Postman
- Click
Send
Example of the DELETE
method
- Create an endpoint that delete the data from the
links
table in the database.
- For this endpoint, we will use
.delete()
because we are going to delete data from the database. - We use
query string
to get the data from the client - Create an endpoint 👇🏻
app.delete("/todo/delete", (req, res) => {
// Assign the params as a variable
const id = req.query.id;
const todoId = req.query.todo_id;
connection.query(
`DELETE FROM links where id = ? AND todo_id = ?`, [id, todoId],
(err, rows) => {
// Check if cannot find the data in the database then return the error
if (err) {
res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: err.message,
});
} else {
if (rows) {
res.json({
success: true,
data: {
message: "delete successfully",
},
});
}
}
}
);
});
- Create a request in Postman
- Click
Send
--- End of the example ----
** This is the finalized code for this example 👇🏻
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const mysql = require("mysql2");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
const port = 3000;
const connection = mysql.createConnection({
host: "server2.mixkoap.com",
port: "6103",
user: "root",
password: "root_apisitmaneerat",
database: "csc105-workshop",
});
// Connect to database
connection.connect();
console.log("Database is connected");
// parse various different custom JSON types as JSON
app.use(bodyParser.json({ type: "application/json" }));
app.get("/", (req, res) => {
res.send("Hello World!");
});
app.get("/hello", (req, res) => {
res.json({
name: "Apisit Maneerat",
nickName: "Mixko",
university: "KMUTT",
});
});
app.get("/todo/all", (req, res) => {
connection.query("SELECT * FROM items", (err, rows) => {
// Check if cannot find the data in the database then return the error
if (err) {
res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: err.message,
});
} else {
// Return data to the client if success
res.json({
success: true,
data: rows,
error: null,
});
}
});
});
app.get("/todo", (req, res) => {
// Assign the params as a variable
// https://medium.com/@joseph.pyram/9-parts-of-a-url-that-you-should-know-89fea8e11713
const todoId = req.query.todo_id;
// Regex to check the todo_is is a number only or not
const checkTodoId = new RegExp(/^\d+$/).test(todoId); // Boolean
// Check if the todo_id is not exist or is not a number, return json with an error
if (!todoId || !checkTodoId) {
res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: "todo_id is invalid",
});
}
connection.query(`SELECT * FROM items WHERE id = ${todoId}`, (err, rows) => {
// Check if cannot find the data in the database then return the error
if (err) {
res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: `Data not found ${err.message}`,
});
} else {
// Return data to the client if success
if (rows[0]) {
res.json({
success: true,
data: rows[0],
error: null,
});
} else {
res.json({
success: true,
data: null,
error: null,
});
}
}
});
});
app.post("/todo/create", (req, res) => {
// The JSON body
const payload = req.body;
connection.query(
`INSERT INTO users (username) VALUES (?)`,
[payload.userName],
(err, rows) => {
// Check if cannot find the data in the database then return the error
if (err) {
res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: err.message,
});
} else {
// Return data to the client if success
if (rows) {
res.json({
success: true,
data: {
message: "create successfully",
},
});
}
}
}
);
});
app.patch("/todo/edit", (req, res) => {
// The JSON body
const payload = req.body;
console.log(payload);
connection.query(
"UPDATE items SET name = ?, detail = ? WHERE id = ?",
[payload.name, payload.detail, payload.id],
(err, rows) => {
// Check if cannot find the data in the database then return the error
if (err) {
res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: err.message,
});
} else {
// Return data to the client if success
if (rows) {
res.json({
success: true,
data: {
message: "update successfully",
},
});
}
}
}
);
});
app.delete("/todo/delete", (req, res) => {
// Assign the params as a variable
const id = req.query.id;
const todoId = req.query.todo_id;
connection.query(
`DELETE FROM links where id = ? AND todo_id = ?`,
[id, todoId],
(err, rows) => {
// Check if cannot find the data in the database then return the error
if (err) {
return res.json({
success: false,
data: null,
error: err.message,
});
} else {
if (rows) {
res.json({
success: true,
data: {
message: "delete successfully",
},
});
}
}
}
);
});
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}`);
});
More examples for those who want to create more than one query in one endpoint
app.get("/todo/from", async (req, res) => {
const userId = req.query.userId;
// User data
const userData = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
connection.query(
`SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?`,
[userId],
(err, rows) => {
if (err) {
res.json({
suceess: false,
error: err.message,
});
} else {
resolve(rows[0]);
}
}
);
});
// User's todos
const userTodos = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
connection.query(
`SELECT * FROM items WHERE owner_id = ?`,
[userId],
(err, rows) => {
if (err) {
res.json({
suceess: false,
error: err.message,
});
} else {
resolve(rows);
}
}
);
});
res.json({
success: true,
data: {
user_data: userData,
todos: userTodos,
},
error: null,
});
});