Performing a HTTP POST request in Node with MongoDB/Mongoose?

Question

I have defined my schema, I just need to know the syntax to do the actual HTTP POST request. I am using MongoDB with Mongoose framework. This way when I go to my localhost:300/users I can see my JSON data posted.

The JSON data I want to post to my localhost:3000/users

{ 
  "firstName": "Jono", 
  "lastName": "Ganesan", 
  "email": "[email protected]", 
  "username": "username", 
  "password": "password" 
} 

my server.js file

process.env.NODE_ENV = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development';
var mongoose = require('./config/mongoose');
var express = require('./config/express');
var db = mongoose();
var app = express();
app.listen(3000);
module.exports = app;
console.log('Server running at http://localhost:3000/');

user.server.model.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
    Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var UserSchema = new Schema({
    firstName: String,
    lastName: String,
    email: String,
    username: String,
    password: String
});
mongoose.model('User', UserSchema);

user.server.routes.js

var users = require('../../app/controllers/users.server.controller');
module.exports = function(app) {
    app.route('/users').post(users.create);
};

user.server.controller

var User = require('mongoose').model('User');
exports.create = function(req, res, next) {
    var user = new User(req.body);
    user.save(function(err) {
        if (err) {
            return next(err);
        } else {
            res.json(user);
        }
    });
};

Answer 1

As I understood - you want to know the syntax of making post request to add user. On client side, using jQuery - you can make a server POST request using this code:

$.post("http://localhost:300/users", { 
  "firstName": "Jono", 
  "lastName": "Ganesan", 
  "email": "[email protected]", 
  "username": "username", 
  "password": "password" 
} ,
 function(data, status){
        alert("Data: " + data);
});