Store data with CloudBoost's CloudObjects

CloudBoost is a Database Service with storage, search and real-time capabilities. Think of CloudBoost as Parse + Firebase + Algolia all combined into one. CloudBoost has SDK's in multiple platforms which helps you build web, mobile and IoT apps without dealing with the backend and database infrastructure.

Pre-Requisites

CloudBoost

CloudBoost is a Cloud Application Platform designed to make it easier for NodeJS developers to build apps. CloudBoost features include a Database Service, Queues, Cache and more built into one simple API.

CloudBoost is in the npm registry. To install CloudBoost, you need to :

npm install cloudboost

What will our application do?

To keep things simple, we're going to only tackle very basic functionality. We're going to build a course management system which registers, retrieves and deletes courses. Our application will support the following methods:

• Register a course (POST /course/:name)
• Retrieve a course (GET /course/:name)
• Deleting a course (DELETE /course/:name)

Let's get started!

You need to create a new app here before you get started. Create a new account and create a new app to get started.

Once your app is created. You'll have your client key and a master key. Please make sure you use master key when you're writing NodeJS applications.

You need to initialize your new application. To initialize your app,

CloudBoost NodeJS module initializes your app with your App ID and Master Key.

Creating the package.json file

In order to manage dependencies, it is useful to create a package.json file. This file provides details on the packages you depend on so that you can more easily use npm to manage these dependencies.

Create a file named package.json in your application directory.

The most important field in this JSON file is the dependencies field. This field will allow you to execute npm install to install the dependencies for your project.

Create a course table

After you have created your app. Got to CloudBoost Dashboard. click on Manage App button to got o tables page where you can cretae a course table in CloudBoost. Add a new column called name of type text. Once you're done, you can switch back to your NodeJS app and begin writing code.

Inserting an object in CloudBoost

There is one route that we will need in order to register a course in your app.

• POST /course/:name -> Adds an course to the database and returns 200.

The NodeJS script to register a course is as follows:

• You need to create a new CloudObject
• Set object params by using set() function of CloudObject
• Save CloudObject using save() function.

The response will be :

{
  status: 200,
  body: {
            message : "Course Registered."
        }
}

Retrieving an object in CloudBoost.

To retrieve a course, You need to write one more route. You need call the get function of the CloudQuery instance with the name of the course.

• GET /course/:name -> Gets a course from CloudBoost Database.

The NodeJS script to get item from CloudBoost is as follows :

Response will be :

{
  status: 200,
  body: {
            course : {
              _id : "XXXXX",
                name: "Name_of_course"
            }
        }
}

Deleting an object from CloudBoost

To delete a course from CloudBoost, You need to write the DELETE route. You need call the delete function of the CloudObject instance with the key and value.

• DELETE /course/:name -> Delete an item from the cache.

The NodeJS script to delete an item from CloudBoost is as follows :

The response is

{
  status: 200,
  body: {
            message : "Success"
        }
}

Summing it up

As you can see, getting started with CloudBoost and NodeJS with Modulus is fairly simple. To learn more about the CloudBoost, you can check the documentation here, and if you want to quickly get started with CloudBoost you can check the quickstart here https://www.cloudboost.io/quickstart.

The full source code of the finished app.js is below: