Space Flight News API

📋 About

This is an automation project with the purpose of gathering articles from the Space Flight News API service and storing them in a MongoDB Atlas database. The automation runs a cron job everyday at 9AM to do so. This challenge is proposed by Coodesh, a platform that connects hiring companies with developers and sets them up with tech challenges.

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📦 Dependencies

• Express
• Axios
• Dotenv
• Nodemon
• Mongoose
• Node-Cron

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Requirements

Git, Node.js and a code editor, like VSCode.

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📁 How to install and use

• Clone repository.

    $ git clone https://github.com/Has333/Space-Flight-NewsAPI.git

• Access main directory.

    $ cd Space-Flight-NewsAPI

• Install all dependencies using the command npm install (or yarn install depending on your package manager).

    $ npm install || yarn install

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Setting up environment variables

Now, we need to open the project with a code editor to set up environment variables, by creating a .env file based on .env.example on the project folder. We need to add a port for our server to use, and the credentials to the MongoDB Atlas database account you want the articles to be stored in.

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Afterwards, we can run npm start on the terminal. We can leave the automation running and it will update the database everyday at 9AM, or, on our server.js file, we can import { Automation } from upsert-articles-to-db.js and execute it with the .run() method before running npm start, resulting in the automation running instantly.