Simple REST API with Docker 🐳

This is a school exercise project:
A tiny REST API built with Express (Node.js) that does a basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete).

It runs with Docker using two containers:

• API container → runs the Express server (port 8080)
• Database container → stores the data

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✨ What it does

• GET /items → list all items
• GET /items/:id → get one item
• POST /items → add a new item
• PUT /items/:id → update an item
• DELETE /items/:id → remove an item

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🚀 How to run

Make sure you have:

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Then:

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/your-username/your-repo.git
cd your-repo

# start containers
docker-compose up --build

By default:

• API runs on http://localhost:8080
• Database runs inside the Docker network

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⚙️ Stopping & Rebuilding

# stop everything
docker-compose down

# rebuild after making changes
docker-compose up --build

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📂 Structure

├── src/
│   ├── routes/       # API routes (CRUD)
│   ├── controllers/  # Functions that handle logic
│   └── server.js     # Express app entry
├── docker-compose.yml
├── Dockerfile
└── README.md

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[## 🎓 Note] (https://louisgastineau-4630052.postman.co/workspace/Gaste's-Workspace~f1425d52-e733-4c55-82b9-829fc62ad983/request/48296522-689df85b-4f0b-4700-9aa6-b946fd6397de?action=share&creator=48296522&ctx=documentation) Postman Requests to use API

This is just a practice project, not meant for production. It’s only here to learn how to combine Express + Docker + Database. UwU