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Show HN: Auto generate REST API from Mongoose schemas

by aciswhat on 6/20/20, 1:04 PM with 8 comments

• by _bxg1 on 6/21/20, 1:46 AM

  For a long time I've thought that the idea of having an entire, Turing-complete layer between the database and the HTTP API felt like overkill. You know your collections, you know the shape of your data, auth doesn't vary much between orgs. Unless you're doing interesting computations after querying, why do you have to program those endpoints over and over again for each entity in each project? It just seems silly.

  I'm honestly surprised there aren't more projects like this

• by aciswhat on 6/20/20, 1:07 PM

  Hello Hacker News! This is something I quickly prototyped yesterday to automatically generate a REST API from existing Mongoose schemas. It's incredibly useful for mocking your exact backend, or just spinning up an MVP backend.

  Authentication is also built in (currently only supports email/password, but more in the works). I implemented granular permissions for API routes that can be set via configuration really easily, which uses JWTs from the user login.

• by 5986043handy on 6/20/20, 10:13 PM

  This seems pretty useful! Will try out for my next side project.