// Setup mongoose and the database // Check out ./config-sample to configure your MongoDb, rename it to config.js var mongoose = require('mongoose/'); var config = require('./config'); // Local congig file to hide creds db = mongoose.connect(config.creds.mongoose_auth), Schema = mongoose.Schema; // require restify and bodyParser to read Backbone.js syncs var restify = require('restify'); var server = restify.createServer(); server.use(restify.bodyParser()); // Example Application // Create a schema for our data var MessageSchema = new Schema({ message: String, date: Date }); // Use the schema to register a model mongoose.model('Message', MessageSchema); var Message = mongoose.model('Message'); // This function is responsible for returning all entries for the Message model function getMessages(req, res, next) { // Resitify currently has a bug which doesn't allow you to set default headers // This headers comply with CORS and allow us to server our response to any origin res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*"); res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "X-Requested-With"); Message.find().limit(20).sort('date', -1).execFind(function (arr,data) { res.send(data); }); } function postMessage(req, res, next) { res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*"); res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "X-Requested-With"); // Create a new message model, fill it up and save it to Mongodb var message = new Message(); message.message = req.params.message; message.date = new Date() message.save(function () { res.send(req.body); }); } // Set up our routes and start the server server.get('/messages', getMessages); server.post('/messages', postMessage); server.listen(8080, function() { console.log('%s listening at %s, love & peace', server.name, server.url); });