Learning Single-page Web Application Development

Inserting data with Postman

To solve our empty database and before we create our frontend interface, let's add some data with the Chrome extension Postman. By the way, it's a very useful browser interface to work with RESTful APIs.

As we already know that our database is empty, our first task is to insert a record. To do so, perform the following steps:

1. Open Postman and enter http://localhost:8080/api/speakers. Select the x-www-form-urlencoded option and add the properties of our model:

   var SpeakerSchema   = new Schema({
     name:           { type: String, default: '' },
     company:        { type: String, default: '' },
     title:          { type: String, default: '' },
     description:    { type: String, default: '' },
     picture:        { type: String, default: '' },
    schedule: { type: String, ...